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Origin Story: Poems
origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers.
Book Details
- Publisher: Unm Press
- Publish Date: Aug 15th, 2021
- Pages: 104
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 7.70in - 0.30in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780826363015
- Categories: • American - African American & Black• American - Asian American & Pacific Islander
About the Author
Jackson, Gary: - Gary Jackson is an associate professor of creative writing at the College of Charleston. He is also the author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Praise for this book
"Though origin story is a story of family and past, it is, of course, a story about the poet."--Jaclyn Youhana Garver, Colorado Review
"Gary Jackson's origin story is a powerful meditation on how we return to and turn away from our beginnings. These exquisite poems search out the source of belonging, whether to people or place. Jackson deftly shows us what can happen when fracture begets connection and erasure becomes revelation. Elegiac, irreverent, and deeply American, this collection testifies to the persistence of memory."--Amy Fleury, author of Sympathetic Magic
"From post-Korean War era to the present day, ongoing brutalities upon Black bodies, and the complexities of a speaker born to a Black-Asian mother and Black father, Jackson's poems in origin story reveal the porous interconnectedness of our boundaries--bloodlines, memories, trauma, silences--and how origin stories and their contested retellings hold deep roots to our sense of betrayal and belonging."--Esther Lee, author of Sacrificial Metal
"origin story is both intensely intimate and utterly everyman. These are poems of both great weight and profound lightness. . . It is impossible to read origin story and not feel obliged to think hard about one's own upbringing, impossible not to be moved and changed by what these poems bring to light."--Tim Seibles, author of Fast Animal
"In origin story, Gary Jackson delivers a work of beauty and talent. Like so much honey down our throats, he channels the voices of his mother, his grandparents, his family, and his encyclopedic knowledge of comics to create a new and necessary universe. It challenges racism and carried assumptions while creating an honest dialogue that ultimately ends with connection and compassion. These poems are where the body becomes word."--Juan Morales, author of The Handyman's Guide to End Times: Poems