Major Jackson

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A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton, 2020). His edited volumes of poetry include Renga for Obama and Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson by Major Jackson

Major Jackson
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2022. 184 pages. IT IS MY SEMI-PROFESSIONAL opinion that anybody reviewing a book of essays must wrestle with the question, “Who on earth bu…
Think of Me, Laughing

August 19, 2020 Major Jackson
Photo by Jeremy Thomas / Unsplash Series editor’s note: In Major Jackson’s new poem, “Think of Me, Laughing,” we meet a speaker who is well-acquainted with the habits of sorrow of in…
The Absurd Man by Major Jackson

Major Jackson
New York. W.W. Norton. 2020. 112 pages. Major Jackson’s fifth book of poems is troubled by its own age. “The soil overruns with honey,” says the speaker in “I’ve Said Too Much,” a confession ripe wit…
Two US Poems

Summer 2019
Major Jackson
Photo: Picker H/Flickr November in Xichang There are cities one won’t see again. – Joseph Brodsky I. Only a bearded smile shows below a conica…
“Every Poet Has to Be Lonely”: A Conversation with Tomasz Różycki and His Translators

September 2016
Major Jackson, Mira Rosenthal
Tomasz Różycki Photo: Slav ZatokaTomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the Ko…