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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalize
- No
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- No
- Type
- Poetry
- Vintage
- Yes
- Personalized
- No
- Subject
- Poetry
- Signed
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- ISBN
- 9780814331941
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814331947
ISBN-13
9780814331941
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5951951
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bobweaving Detroit : the Selected Poems of Murray Jackson
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General, African
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
African American Life Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-015787
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
These resonant poems bob and weave in graceful, dedicated rhythms of black public life and dark communal wisdom, to execute the most remarkable ballet of the inner passions, lyrical evocations of natural and peopled worlds where the soul eternally discovers wonder, desire, elegant beauty and love. This is a rare gift from a man of generosity and genius., The poems in Bobweaving Detroit, grounded in the city that Murray Jackson knew so well and clearly loved so much, move almost effortlessly from the urban particulars of one man's life, expressed with tenderness, humility, honesty, and intelligence, to the some of the deepest questions we can pose about living and loving, struggling and enduring, prevailing and transcending. I find it impossible to read this book and not be moved both by the nobility of spirit the poems express and also the quiet and yet considerable literary skill behind their composition.
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Synopsis
This is the final collection of poems from Murray Jackson. A highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, Jackson offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban - and urbane - tradition., Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as well as an internationally known poet, offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban--and urbane--tradition. Jackson was a Classicist as well as an athlete, an inspiring teacher and an inspired humanist whose poems engage the blues vernacular, a wide palate of visual arts, and a broad spectrum of musical sources. Murray Jackson was always a poet, though he first published with Broadside Press, Detroit's and the nation's longest continuously publishing Black poetry press, after a long career of public service during which he opened Detroit's first community college and many other educational and artistic venues to his fellow citizens and scholars. Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts, humanities, and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations--his "bobweaving"-- with Langston Hughes, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Archie Moore and Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp, Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young, Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd., From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit's glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in its evocation of jazz and its improvisations on the classics. Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as well as an internationally known poet, offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban--and urbane--tradition. Jackson was a Classicist as well as an athlete, an inspiring teacher and an inspired humanist whose poems engage the blues vernacular, a wide palate of visual arts, and a broad spectrum of musical sources. Murray Jackson was always a poet, though he first published with Broadside Press, Detroit's and the nation's longest continuously publishing Black poetry press, after a long career of public service during which he opened Detroit's first community college and many other educational and artistic venues to his fellow citizens and scholars. Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts, humanities, and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations--his "bobweaving"-- with Langston Hughes, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Archie Moore and Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp, Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young, Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd., Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems. Dr. Jackson, a highly respected educator, political figure and philanthropist, as well as an internationally known poet, offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban-and urbane-tradition. Jackson was a Classicist as well as an athlete, an inspiring teacher and an inspired humanist whose poems engage the blues vernacular, a wide palate of visual arts, and a broad spectrum of musical sources. Murray Jackson was always a poet, though he first published with Broadside Press, Detroit's and the nation's longest continuously publishing Black poetry press, after a long career of public service during which he opened Detroit's first community college and many other educational and artistic venues to his fellow citizens and scholars. Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts, humanities, and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations-his "bobweaving"- with Langston Hughes, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Archie Moore and Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp, Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young, Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd.
LC Classification Number
PS3560.A2553B63 2003
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