Missing You, Metropolis

by Gary Jackson, Yusef Komunyakaa (Selected by), Yusef Komunyakaa (Introduction)

Overview

Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize


The exploits you find in my comics are no more probable than snow in Sunnyvale.
I'm not as black as you dream.
—from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is

Missing You, Metropolis

With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555975722
Publisher:	Graywolf Press
Publication date:	10/26/2010
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	478,740
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gary Jackson was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas. He received his M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico and has taught in Albuquerque and in Anyang, South Korea.

Editorial Reviews

Gary Jackson's Missing You, Metropolis embodies a voice uniquely shaped and tuned for the twenty-first century. Playful, jaunty, rueful, and highly serious—sometimes within a singular poem—this persona has been forged in the caldron of popular iconography, especially in the culture of the comic book. Anything is possible in such created time and space; immediate tension exists in a climate where otherworldly figures are defined by earthly matters and concerns. The funny-book world is a perfect landscape for innuendo and signification, and Jackson uses these aptly. This first collection of poems is gauged by a sophisticated heart.” —YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, from the Introduction

From the Publisher

Kansas-born Jackson's first collection of poems was awarded the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize prior to publication. The poet envisions the comic book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men juxtaposed with the realities of his own native state.

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