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- Book Title
- Leaving Saturn
- Publication Name
- Leaving Saturn
- Title
- Leaving Saturn
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780820323428
- ISBN
- 9780820323428
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 31/01/2002
- Release Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Original Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed while growing up in Philadelphia. His poems hauntingly reflect urban decay and violence, yet at the same time they rejoice in the sustaining power of music and the potency of community.
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
082032342x
ISBN-13
9780820323428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038695669
Product Key Features
Book Title
Leaving Saturn
Original Language
English
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3610.A354l4 2002
Reviews
"Jackson is in step, but he's also out there on the sidelines watching, with a keen eye for the tender moment, a rage at unfairness, a clever perception of vision where others might see only craziness. With such an auspicious beginning, what a future lies ahead of him."--New Orleans Times-Picayune, Jackson inherits the gesture of poet as hero from James Weldon Johnson's naming of the African-American host-'black and unknown bards'-as well as Eliot's ghosts of white literary tradition., "Ultimately, Leaving Saturn is an homage to the inner-city ugly duckling, which, through Jackson's humanistic powers, is transcended into a swan."--David Mills, Boston Globe, "In this winning debut collection, Major Jackson begins as a poet of the Philadelphia projects, then projects himself into the wider arena of American Literature. Leaving Saturn marks the arrival of a poet who could be the Langston Hughes of North Philadelphia or the next Robert Hayden whose, 'Tattooed Man' yearns, 'Oh to break through,/ to free myself. . . .' Major Jackson has the talent to free himself to become whatever kind of poet he wants. . . . He will always have Philadelphia and his black roots as a source of 'tropes,' which he calls 'brutal, / relentless, miraculous. . .'-just like his poetry."--George Held, Philadelphia Inquirer, "Jackson is in step, but he's also out there on the sidelines watching, with a keen eye for the tender moment, a rage at unfairness, a clever perception of vision where others might see only craziness. With such an auspicious beginning, what a future lies ahead of him."-- New Orleans Times-Picayune, "From Sun Ra to the conundrum of adolescent sexuality, from barbershop culture to basketball and dance as rites of passage,Leaving Saturnis largely about returning: to tradition, to a psychological landscape both American and African American, and to a recognition of that suffering without which 'how else/do we know we are here?' An ambitious debut, for which Major Jackson has coined an idiom and music all his own."--Carl Phillips, "One of the gifts of the finest poets is to understand that one's personal voice is intertwined with the voices of other poets and other people, both dead and living, and yet to speak and sound like oneself, neither pretentious nor dumbed down. Major Jackson has that gift. Prophetic scat singer, apocalyptic raconteur, he makes poems that swerve impossibly and yet authoritatively from the ordinary to the miraculous and beyond but always keep their cool. Rich in reference and thick with all he has experienced on his own pulses, Major Jackson's poetry gathers, lifts, and loads, but never collapses. It takes on a massive load, but carries it forward."--T. R. Hummer, author of The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic, "One of the gifts of the finest poets is to understand that one's personal voice is intertwined with the voices of other poets and other people, both dead and living, and yet to speak and sound like oneself, neither pretentious nor dumbed down. Major Jackson has that gift. Prophetic scat singer, apocalyptic raconteur, he makes poems that swerve impossibly and yet authoritatively from the ordinary to the miraculous and beyond but always keep their cool. Rich in reference and thick with all he has experienced on his own pulses, Major Jackson's poetry gathers, lifts, and loads, but never collapses. It takes on a massive load, but carries it forward."--T. R. Hummer, author ofThe Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic, "Ultimately,Leaving Saturnis an homage to the inner-city ugly duckling, which, through Jackson's humanistic powers, is transcended into a swan."--David Mills,Boston Globe, "Jackson inherits the gesture of poet as hero from James Weldon Johnson's naming of the African-American host-'black and unknown bards'-as well as Eliot's ghosts of white literary tradition."--Afaa M. Weaver, Ploughshares, "Jackson inherits the gesture of poet as hero from James Weldon Johnson's naming of the African-American host-'black and unknown bards'-as well as Eliot's ghosts of white literary tradition."--Afaa M. Weaver,Ploughshares, "These assemblies of word, phrase, and line offer collages out of Romare Bearden, and their subtle meters have a musicality that conjures the back beats of an adolescence and adulthood in a Philadelphia stretching immeasurable latitudes away from the Main Line."--Reamy Jansen, Christian Science Monitor, "From Sun Ra to the conundrum of adolescent sexuality, from barbershop culture to basketball and dance as rites of passage, Leaving Saturn is largely about returning: to tradition, to a psychological landscape both American and African American, and to a recognition of that suffering without which 'how else/do we know we are here?' An ambitious debut, for which Major Jackson has coined an idiom and music all his own."--Carl Phillips, "With a changeable, questing voice, unexpected shifts in attention and tone, Major Jackson makes poems that rumble and rock. These poems find themselves at home in the mind of Sun Ra or on a Cape Cod beach, in a City Center Disco or the projects of North Philadelphia. Read 'Euphoria,' 'How To Listen,' 'Some Kind of Crazy' and get a jolt of this stuff. Become one of the 'community of believers.'"--Dorianne Laux, In this winning debut collection, Major Jackson begins as a poet of the Philadelphia projects, then projects himself into the wider arena of American Literature. Leaving Saturn marks the arrival of a poet who could be the Langston Hughes of North Philadelphia or the next Robert Hayden whose, 'Tattooed Man' yearns, 'Oh to break through,/ to free myself. . . .' Major Jackson has the talent to free himself to become whatever kind of poet he wants. . . . He will always have Philadelphia and his black roots as a source of 'tropes,' which he calls 'brutal, / relentless, miraculous. . .'-just like his poetry.
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-043072
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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