Sun of the Son

by Vernon Jackman, Edwin Jackman (Illustrator), George Sheldon (Illustrator), Eric Haesche (Photographer)

Overview

Set in Barbados, the poems in Sun of the Son were awarded the Corson Bishop Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize and the American Academy of Poets Prize at Cornell University. The voices in this collection incorporate the cultures and creoles of the islands, the remembrance and continuity of Africa, the influence of European and American writers, and mythologies from Old and New Worlds. Like many Caribbean poets, the writing is assimilative and embracing, yet uniquely native. Vernon L. Jackman’s poetry is a vivid and lyrical diction, as inflected by Brathwaite, Walcott and Lamming, as it is by Pound, Elliot and Williams. Praised by poets and critics, these are poems whose music and images are as striking as the characters that inhabit and overshadow them.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013992030
Publisher:	Vernon Jackman
Publication date:	02/20/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	169 KB

About the Author

Vernon L. Jackman is an award winning poet and educator who holds bachelors and masters degrees from Cornell University. As Director of Pre-College Programs at New Jersey’s William Paterson University, he introduced students from kindergarten through high school to the importance attending college. He also created an after-school program for over 200 k-8 students with a grant from New Jersey After 3, Inc. He currently resides in South Carolina with his wife, Dr. Lorraine Jackman, and their two daughters.

Editorial Reviews

“Vernon L. Jackman is one of the emerging voices in contemporary American poetry. To read his work is to enter a world where the water meets the land, and where the image meets the word. From the diurnal rhythms of island life, Jackman extracts hard personal and political truths that speak to us all.”
— Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Professor of English and chair Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

“Twenty-five years ago, as a publisher reading an unsolicited typescript, I was the first stranger to hear the ocean speak with a new voice, and see what the sun saw, in the poems of Edward Kamau Brathwaite. I hear another such authentic voice and see an old world with new eyes in Vernon L. Jackman’s Sun of the Son. Look. Listen.”
— Jon Stallworthy, Professor of Modern Poetry, Oxford University

Jon Stallworthy

“Vernon L. Jackman shares the survivor tongue: that music—rich, dark and vatic—which returns us to what we’ve seen, suffered, and transcended. I know of no poet more political and spiritual. In his poetry, everything shimmers with meaning and pain. This is our voice before The Middle Passage; this is our voice, lovely, provident and lush.”
— Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University

Kenneth A. McClane

“The music of Jackman’s words and images seizes the attention with an inevitability only major poetry confirms.”
— A. R. Ammons (1926-2001), Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry Cornell University

A. R. Ammons

“In pristine colors of tropical brilliance, Vernon L. Jackman, has etched an unforgettable portrait of islands. He has done this with a delicacy of breath and the assurance of an accomplished poet. Using Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott as his guides, he transports us to a world that is at once extraordinarily beautiful and carefully sculpt. Sun of the Son deserves our attention."
— Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor and chain Africana Studies, Wellesley College

Selwyn R. Cudjoe