The Absurd Man: Poems

by Major Jackson

Book Overview

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132400455X
• ISBN13: 9781324004554
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.6"