Hoops: Poems
Book Details
Author(s)Major Jackson
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
ISBN / ASIN0393330370
ISBN-139780393330373
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank215,409
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying “formal talents and [Jackson’s] capacity for expanding the lyric potential of narrative†(Rain Taxi).
In Hoops, Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent.

