It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems by Jackson, Angela

It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems

2015 PEN Open Book Award Finalist Angela Jackson's latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a...
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It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems by Jackson, Angela

It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems

$42.93

It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems

$42.93
Author: Angela Jackson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

2015 PEN Open Book Award Finalist

Angela Jackson's latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a lyric in Barbara Lewis's 1963 hit single "Hello Stranger," recorded at Chess Records in Chicago. Like the song, Jackson's poems are a melodic ode to the African American experience, informed by both individual lives and community history, from the arrival of the first African slave in Virginia in 1619 to post-Obama America.

It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time reflects the maturity of Jackson's poetic vision. The Great Migration, the American South, and Chicago all serve as signposts, but it is the complexity of individual lives--both her own and those who have gone before, walk beside, and come after--that invigorate this collection. Upon surveying so vast a landscape, Jackson finds that sorrow meets delight, and joy lifts up anger and despair. And for all this time, love is the agent, the wise and just rule and guide.



Author: Angela Jackson
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: 02/15/2015
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.33h x 6.96w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780810130517


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 102
Booklist 02/01/2015 pg. 15
Library Journal 04/15/2015 pg. 87
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2016 pg. 7

About the Author
ANGELA JACKSON is Poet Laureate of Illinois and the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Voo Doo/Love Magic (1974); Dark Legs and Silk Kisses (TriQuarterly, 1993), which won the Carl Sandburg Award; and And All These Roads Be Luminous (TriQuarterly, 1998). She has also written several plays, including Witness! (1978), Shango Diaspora: An African-American Myth of Womanhood and Love (1980), and When the Wind Blows (1984). Her novel Where I Must Go (TriQuarterly, 2009) won the American Book Award. Jackson's honors include a Pushcart Prize, TriQuarterlys Daniel Curley Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Jackson lives in Chicago.


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