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The Absurd Man: Poems

English

By (author): Major Jackson

Inspired by Albert Camuss seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jacksons fifth volume subtly configures the poet as absurd hero and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jacksons restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lost mother with a stunning, lucid lyricism.

The arc of a man emerges; he bravely confronts his past, including his betrayals and his mistakes, and questions who he is as a father, as a husband, as a son, and as a poet. With intense musicality and verve, The Absurd Man also faces outward, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 282g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 218mm
  • Publication Date: 19 May 2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781324004554

About Major Jackson

Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown Jackson lives in Nashville Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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