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More copies of this ISBNHoops : Poems (06 Edition)by Major Jackson
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Publisher Comments:In Hoops, Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent.
Synopsis:Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying "formal talents and [Jackson's] capacity for expanding the lyric potential of narrative" (Rain Taxi).
Synopsis:In Hoops, Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent.
About the AuthorMajor Jackson"s previous collection, Leaving Saturn, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He teaches at the University of Vermont and lives in South Burlington.
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