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An inventive new collection and winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa
*The prestigious first-book award dedicated to the discovery of
exceptional African American poets*
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Price: $15.00 USD
Poetry 978-1-55597-572-2, 80 pages, Paper
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”
*Named one of the Root's "Five Young Black Writers You Should Be Reading Now*
With humor and the serious collector’s delight, Gary
Jackson imagines the comic-book world of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men
alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides
of a sister and a friend.
“Gary Jackson’s Missing
You, Metropolis embodies a voice uniquely shaped and turned for the
twenty-first century. Playful, jaunty, rueful, and highly serious—sometimes
within a singular poem—this person 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
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