Description: 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 he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lost mother with a stunning, lucid lyricism. The arc of a man emerges; he bravely confronts his past, including his betrayals and his mistakes, and questions who he is as a father, as a husband, as a son, and as a poet. With intense musicality and verve, The Absurd Man also faces outward, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination.
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EAN: 9781324004554
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Item Length: 21.8 cm
Book Title: The Absurd Man: Poems
Item Height: 218mm
Item Width: 163mm
Author: Major Jackson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Poetry
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 282g
Number of Pages: 112 Pages