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9780826368423 Academic Inspection Copy

Small Lives

Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9780826368423
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Gary Jackson
  • Price: AUD $43.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/12/2025
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 121g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Poetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson's work is inspired by Afro-futurism. small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis, featuring original and remixed superheroes who are othered for more than just their skin and are subsequently and simultaneously celebrated, destroyed, and desired, illustrating what it means to reside in a country's brutal imagination.
Gary Jackson is an associate professor of creative writing at the College of Charleston. He is also the author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
"In small lives, Gary Jackson assembles an intricate universe and a compelling story of a team of black superhumans that discover their powers and themselves in a volatile and cynical world. With prose poems, erasure, and powerful storytelling, these poems blur genres and open your mind to witness amazing feats, the rise and fall of heroes, and maybe even a world saved from itself. Jackson has gifted us with a book that is focused, compassionate, and brimming with imagination."--Juan J. Morales, author of Dream of the Bird Tattoo: Poems and Suenitos "In Gary Jackson's compelling third collection, we encounter a fable of sorts. And in the best of fables, the stories told from the perspectives of the Invincible Woman, the Telepath, and Willpower Man all share resonances with our pasts and present. Jackson's skillful examination of the extraordinary as it mirrors the quotidian invites readers to wonder at the spectacle of supernatural beings who share the brightness of the sun while their interior lives are filled with intense doubt, fear, and hope. Jackson makes these small lives loom large and fierce, bringing all to gather around to watch miracles happen while also encouraging us to acknowledge the cost."--Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets "There's a charmed and charged theater in Gary Jackson's small lives that's rare in contemporary poetry. At its center, this book is about power: who has it, how it twists, how it's weaponized, how it's abdicated. On its face, it's a superhero story in the tradition of Moore's The Watchmen. A welcome counterbalance to our thirty-second culture, small lives is a tender, gritty thriller that resists hopelessness."--Maya Marshall, author of All the Blood Involved in Love
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