It seems like a mighty long time : poems / Angela Jackson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2015Description: xiii, 124 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0810130513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780810130517 (pbk. : alk. paper)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 J12 | Available | 33111007973122 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
2015 PEN Open Book Award Finalist
Angela Jackson's latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a lyric in Barbara Lewis's 1963 hit single "Hello Stranger," recorded at Chess Records in Chicago. Like the song, Jackson's poems are a melodic ode to the African American experience, informed by both individual lives and community history, from the arrival of the first African slave in Virginia in 1619 to post-Obama America.
It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time reflects the maturity of Jackson's poetic vision. The Great Migration, the American South, and Chicago all serve as signposts, but it is the complexity of individual lives--both her own and those who have gone before, walk beside, and come after--that invigorate this collection. Upon surveying so vast a landscape, Jackson finds that sorrow meets delight, and joy lifts up anger and despair. And for all this time, love is the agent, the wise and just rule and guide.