A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson

by Major Jackson

In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself. Accessible and critically minded, Jackson returns to the poem as an unparalleled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472039067
• ISBN13: 9780472039067
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"