{"product_id":"the-absurd-man-poems-9780393867411","title":"The Absurd Man: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by Albert Camus's seminal \u003cem\u003eMyth of Sisyphus\u003c\/em\u003e, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as \"absurd hero\" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lost mother with a stunning, lucid lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arc of a man emerges; he bravely confronts his past, including his betrayals and his mistakes, and questions who he is as a father, as a husband, as a son, and as a poet. With intense musicality and verve, \u003cem\u003eThe Absurd Man\u003c\/em\u003e also faces outward, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackson, Major:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of five volumes of poems, including \u003cem\u003eRoll Deep\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLeaving Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. The poetry editor of the \u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650305397010,"sku":"9780393867411","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1613fe7a-ec6b-4e30-b73d-19c556834669.jpg?v=1733286537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-absurd-man-poems-9780393867411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}