Missing You, Metropolis: Poems
Gary Jackson
(Author)
Yusef Komunyakaa
(Introduction by)
Description
Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
The exploits you find in my comicsare no more probable
than snow in Sunnyvale.
I'm not as black as you dream.
--from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is Missing You, Metropolis With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publish Date
October 26, 2010
Pages
80
Dimensions
6.15 X 8.95 X 0.32 inches | 0.37 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781555975722
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About the Author
Gary Jackson was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico and has taught in Albuquerque and in Anyang, South Korea.
Reviews
"Gary Jackson's Missing You, Metropolis embodies a voice uniquely shaped and tuned for the twenty-first century. Playful, jaunty, rueful, and highly serious--sometimes within a singular poem--this persona has been forged in the caldron of popular iconography, especially in the culture of the comic book. Anything is possible in such created time and space; immediate tension exists in a climate where otherworldly figures are defined by earthly matters and concerns. The funny-book world is a perfect landscape for innuendo and signification, and Jackson uses these aptly. This first collection of poems is gauged by a sophisticated heart." --YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, from the Introduction
