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Holding Company: Poems

Holding Company: Poems

Current price: $15.95
Publication Date: February 6th, 2012
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393341126
Pages:
112

Description

"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry Daily

In these poems of broken unions and acute longing, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as seductive forces in our lives.

About the Author

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.

Praise for Holding Company: Poems

At times mysterious and at others matter-of-fact, this collection provides much to savor.
— American Poet

Passionate, urgent, and lonely . . . [including] lines and images as delicious as they are surprising.
— Library Journal