nEW yORK, ny (September 3,
2009) — Graywolf Press and Cave Canem Foundation,
Inc., North America’s premier “home for black poetry,” are pleased to announce
that Gary Jackson has received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his
manuscript, Missing you, Metropolis, selected by Yusef
Komunyakaa. Graywolf Press will publish the collection in fall 2010. Additionally,
Mr. Jackson will receive $1,000 and a feature reading.
Yusef Komunyakaa writes, “Gary Jackson's Missing you, Metropolis embodies and underscores a voice uniquely
shaped and tuned for the 21st century. Playful, jaunty and highly serious…the collection is gauged by a
sophisticated heart. Pathos
breathes within and slightly underneath the visual comedy, and this quality is
the true genius of Missing you,
Metropolis.”
By Steve Stern "There are many reasons to savor Stern's stories—they remind us of
worlds and folkloric traditions long faded from memory, as well as of
the imagination's wilder side—but perhaps the most telling of all is
the sheer pleasure they provide." —Washington Post Book World
By Percival Everett "I suspect it will be some months before I have to stop saying that Glyph is the smartest and funniest novel I've read this century." —LA Weekly
By Ilan Stavans The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future.
By Dana Gioia "Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to
care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into
account." —World Literature Today
