Pardon My Heart
Poems
by Marcus Jackson
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Pub Date 15 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 7 Feb 2018
Northwestern University Press | Triquarterly
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Description
In this strong, lyrically complex collection, Jackson documents an African American young adulthood and the movement toward courtship, marriage, and maturing love. Pardon My Heart reckons with past experiences and revelatory hard-earned ideas about race and class that will resonate with importance in this urgent political climate.
Advance Praise
"Pardon My Heart is a lyrically complex, beautifully integrated collection that will no doubt appeal to a wide audience of readers. Jackson possesses a keen ability to document ideas of maturing love alongside a reckoning of hard-earned ideas about race in a stripped down, clear, and passionate diction that is balanced masterfully against his use of the sonnet form and related lyric modes." —Peter Covino, author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter and The Right Place to Jump
"A book born out of a pain pounded into the skin, of an unstoppable song, of the terrible wondrous thing we call love, Marcus Jackson's Pardon My Heart is a full blown heartbreaker. Each poem is a real and necessary look into what we inherit of the world's sorrow and how we are pulled toward grace by that great middle ticker inside us all." —Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780810136915 |
| PRICE | US$16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 72 |
Featured Reviews
Amy P, Reviewer
Book Review:
Pardon, My Heart was a read that I heard nothing about but I saw it on NetGalley and decided that I would give it a go. It is a story that details African American life and is therefore really important poetry collection.
I have to admit that I didn't get what I should of from this book. I feel like I read it too quickly and wish that I had taken it in more as I feel like this would have been so important. I think that it was so well written but I definitely want to reread it so I can get more from it on a reread.
The Verdict:
Pardon My Heart is an important read and is a great poetry read.
