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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.Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus is the author of 'Hoops: Poems', published 2007 under ISBN 9780393330373 and ISBN 0393330370.
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