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  • The Absurd Man

    Poems

    by Major Jackson ...
    In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.Inspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson’s restless, vulnerable speaker as ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Best American Poetry 2019

    by David Lehman, Major Jackson ...
    Series series The Best American Poetry series
    The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review.Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Beat Beyond

    Selected Prose of Major Jackson

    by Amor Kohli, Major Jackson ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself. Accessible and critically ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • I Would Define the Sun

    Poems

    by Stephanie Niu ...
    Series Book 1 - Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
    Finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2026Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while striving toward that impossible act. In an era of planetary collapse, filled with bushfires, bleached coral, and burnout, Niu explores what love can ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Bowl of Goodness

    Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup, Celebrating Community, Friendship, and Resilience

    by Major Jackson ...
    An anthology of contemporary poems and soup recipes to nourish us, comfort us, and bind us together--gathered by award-winning poet Major Jackson.Poetry and soup both offer sustenance and comfort. And yet, the secret ingredient to every great meal is not what we see on the plate, but who we see around the table. This anthology features poems by today's best poets that embody the idea of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Roll Deep

    Poems

    by Major Jackson ...
    A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage.In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of “rolling deep” to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Printer's Fist

    Poems

    by Melissa Range ...
    Series series Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
    Melissa Range’s Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement—its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures—with a particular emphasis on print culture. Drawing upon more than a decade’s worth of archival research into nineteenth-century antislavery newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and more, Range ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Razzle Dazzle

    New and Selected Poems 2002-2022

    by Major Jackson ...
    **“The whole world is in these poems.” —David Kirby, The New York Times Book ReviewAn exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry.**A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson’s transformative ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Holding Company

    Poems

    by Major Jackson ...
    "A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry DailyIn these poems of broken unions and acute longing, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as seductive forces in our lives. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2018 Guest-Edited by Lan Samantha Chang

    by Lan Samantha Chang, Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Major Jackson, Jamel Brinkley, Tameka Cage Conley ...
    The Spring 2018 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Lan Samantha Chang writes in her introduction, “It is essential to share aspiration and fear, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2012 Guest-Edited by Nick Flynn

    by Nick Flynn, Eric Fair, Major Jackson ...
    Series series Plougshares
    Guest editor Nick Flynn selects and introduces a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The issues features everything from Eric Fair's essay Consequence, on being an interrogator at Abu Ghraib, to Major Jackson's list poem, "Why I Write Poetry." A stylistically varied issue featuring several emerging poets like Samuel Amadon and Sophie Klahr, as well as established writers such as Mark ... Read more

    $6.99 USD