Roll Deep: Poems

by Major Jackson

Book Overview

In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental--his "crew." The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. And like his best...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393246892
• ISBN13: 9780393246896
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"