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From publisher’s website : In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Albert Camus\u2019s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson\u2019s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as \u201cabsurd hero\u201d and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Photo by Pakorn Praikhiaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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