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Major Jackson

Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Major Jackson

Awards

Shortlisted — NEIBA New England Book Award, 2019

Books by Major Jackson

Hoops: Poems
Major Jackson
Paperback, 2007
Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying “formal talents and [Jackson’s] capacity for expanding the lyric potential of narrative” (Rain Taxi).
Holding Company: Poems
Major Jackson
Hardback, 2010
“Major Jackson makes poems that rumble and rock.”—Dorianne Laux
Holding Company: Poems
Major Jackson
Paperback, 2012
"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry Daily
Roll Deep: Poems
Major Jackson
Paperback, 2017
A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (The Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage.
The Absurd Man: Poems
Major Jackson
Hardback, 2020
In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.
The Absurd Man: Poems
Major Jackson
Paperback, 2021
In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savours the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.
Roll Deep: Poems
Major Jackson
E Book, 2015
A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (The Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage.
Hoops: Poems
Major Jackson
E Book
Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying “formal talents and [Jackson’s] capacity for expanding the lyric potential of narrative” (Rain Taxi).
Holding Company: Poems
Major Jackson
E Book, 2019
"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry Daily
The Absurd Man: Poems
Major Jackson
E Book, 2020
In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.