Pardon My Heart: Poems
by Marcus Jackson (Author)
Winner of the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American ethos. In this lyrically complex collection, the speakers and subjects--the adult descendants of the Great Migration--reckon with past experiences and revelatory, hard-earned ideas about race and class. With a compelling blend of narrative, musicality, and imagery, Jackson's poems span a multitude of scenes, landscapes, and sensations. Pardon My Heart examines intimacy, memory, grief, and festivity while seeking out new, reflective sectors within emotion and culture. By means of concise portraiture and sonic vibrancy, Jackson's poems ultimately express the urgency and pliability of the human soul.
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"What I most admire about Marcus Jackson's Pardon My Heart is the way it explores the stupidity and sorrow of a certain idea of masculinity, and how this exploration—which necessarily requires a kind of disassembly—might allow the tenderness in." —Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Marcus Jackson
MARCUS JACKSON was born in Toledo, Ohio. He earned a B.A. from the University of Toledo and continued his poetry studies at NYU and as a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have appeared in such publications as The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and Tin House. He lives with his wife and son in Columbus, where he teaches in the M.F.A. program at the Ohio State University.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780810136915
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Triquarterly Books
Publication date
April 15, 2018
Series
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BISAC categories
POE005050 - Poetry | American | African American
Library of Congress categories
African Americans
Social life and customs
Love poetry
Social life and customs
Love poetry
