
Fugitive, in Full View
Jack Marshall(Author)
Coffee House Press
Will be published approx. on 29. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-56689-469-2 (ISBN)
Description
Jack Marshall's work is closely attuned to the historical context of our present moment, and uses that long view to make a passionate case for intervention in our contemporary climate of hawkishness, endless war, ecological disaster.
Marshall's poetry begins in appreciation-for family, for love, for beauty-and its call for political action builds from that place.
There are linkages to Osip Mandelstam throughout the collection that signal the kind of protest poetry that Marshall is writing-made up both of appreciation and no uncertain warning. They also propose a kind of kinship between two men who, even as they searched for a sense of home and belonging, were rooted by both history and family.
Jack is an immigrant (he was born into a Jewish family in Baghdad) and his mother's home was in Aleppo, Syria. Migration, refugees, and the ongoing devastation in Syria and Iraq are all immediate and personal concerns for him.
Marshall's poetry begins in appreciation-for family, for love, for beauty-and its call for political action builds from that place.
There are linkages to Osip Mandelstam throughout the collection that signal the kind of protest poetry that Marshall is writing-made up both of appreciation and no uncertain warning. They also propose a kind of kinship between two men who, even as they searched for a sense of home and belonging, were rooted by both history and family.
Jack is an immigrant (he was born into a Jewish family in Baghdad) and his mother's home was in Aleppo, Syria. Migration, refugees, and the ongoing devastation in Syria and Iraq are all immediate and personal concerns for him.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-469-2 (9781566894692)
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Person
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
Content
Section I
Section II
Section III
Section IV
Section V
Section VI
Section VII
Section VIII
Section II
Section III
Section IV
Section V
Section VI
Section VII
Section VIII