Hoops

by Major Jackson

Book Overview

Lush meditations by a poet whose previous book, Leaving Saturn , was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In Hoops , Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393059375
• ISBN13: 9780393059373
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This is a real poet, one who chooses to speak to all of us, not just a select audience.

Don't miss this book. Jackson reminds us that poetry speaks to us all, heals us all, erases our differences, joins us all.