Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as well as an internationally known poet, offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban-and urbane-tradition. Jackson was a Classicist as well as an athlete, an inspiring teacher and an inspired humanist whose poems engage the blues vernacular, a wide palate of visual arts, and a broad spectrum of musical sources.
Murray Jackson was always a poet, though he first published with Broadside Press, Detroit's and the nation's...
Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as...
-When Basil Bunting declared that -Pens are too light. / Take a chisel to write, - I imagine he had in mind the kind of exact and exacting poetry Ted Pearson has been steadily producing for decades. In The Markov Chain, Pearson presents a series of eight-line poems, each composed of four exquisitely crafted alexandrines: -These formal restrictions // are like benedictions . . . Constraints lead to freedoms // exceeding predictions.- Raising the ante, Pearson uses these formal constraints to probe the social constraints contemporary culture imposes on art and life. -When the People...
-When Basil Bunting declared that -Pens are too light. / Take a chisel to write, - I imagine he had in mind the kind of exact and exacting poetry T...
