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104 pages ; 22 cm "In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment. Inspired by the philosophy of Albert Camus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero." With intense musicality and buoyant lyricism, The Absurd Man follows the titular speaker as he confronts the struggle for meaning in a technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination. From "The Absurd Man at Fourteen" He punched her again, a woman called the house, some yelling then us out the door leaving the kitchen phone cord swinging"-- A frenzy of designs from the age of enlightenment. Major and I ; You, reader ; The flâneur tends a well-liked summer cocktail ; Going into battle ; The flag of imagination furled ; November in Xichang ; My children's inheritance ; A brief reflection on torture near the Library of Congress ; The cloistered life of nuns ; Eur

Author

Jackson, Major Jackson

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W.W

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393867411

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24