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“Major Jackson makes poems that rumble and rock.”—Dorianne Laux In Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti. from “Jewel-Tongued” The stillness of a lover’s mouth assaulted me. I never wearied of anecdotes on the Co…
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- Author: Major Jackson
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 112
- ISBN: 9781324004158
- ISBN-10: 1324004150
- ISBN-13: 9781324004158
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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“Major Jackson makes poems that rumble and rock.”—Dorianne LauxIn Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti.
from “Jewel-Tongued”
The stillness of a lover’s mouth
assaulted me. I never wearied of anecdotes
on the Commons, gesturing until I scattered
myself into a luminance, shining over a city
of women. Was I less human or more? I hear still
my breathing echoing off their pillows. So many
eyes like crushed flowers. Our fingers splayed
over a bed’s edge. We were blown away. .
- Author: Major Jackson
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2012
- Pages: 112
- ISBN: 9781324004158
- ISBN-10: 1324004150
- ISBN-13: 9781324004158
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
“Major Jackson makes poems that rumble and rock.”—Dorianne Laux
In Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti.
from “Jewel-Tongued”
The stillness of a lover’s mouth
assaulted me. I never wearied of anecdotes
on the Commons, gesturing until I scattered
myself into a luminance, shining over a city
of women. Was I less human or more? I hear still
my breathing echoing off their pillows. So many
eyes like crushed flowers. Our fingers splayed
over a bed’s edge. We were blown away. .
In Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti.
from “Jewel-Tongued”
The stillness of a lover’s mouth
assaulted me. I never wearied of anecdotes
on the Commons, gesturing until I scattered
myself into a luminance, shining over a city
of women. Was I less human or more? I hear still
my breathing echoing off their pillows. So many
eyes like crushed flowers. Our fingers splayed
over a bed’s edge. We were blown away. .
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