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Heartwall Paperback - 2000

by Richard Jackson


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Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan that is both elegiac and hopeful, but also playing off the notion of the hart walls erected to corral deer for a medieval hunt that was more a slaughter, and evoking the very physiology of the heart itself, this collection of poems explores the possibilities for love and feeling in a world besieged by tragedies in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and elsewhere. At times lyrical, at times satirical, and written in a surrealistic style that ranges from the formal to the aphoristic, Heartwall explores the complex and sometimes confounding relationship between the personal and the political, between our individual perceptions and the larger vision they suggest. These are poems that ask forgiveness, offer praise, and carry enough irony never to seek redemption. They are, at heart, love poems. According to the late William Matthews, Jackson's poems tell us what it means to belong in history. . . . The wonderful amplitude . . . testifies that we can live with such chaos and not lie about it or ignore it: indeed the poems are a demonstration of how we might do such a thing.

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Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan that is both elegiac and hopeful, but also playing off the notion of the "hart" walls erected to corral deer for a medieval hunt that was more a slaughter, and evoking the very physiology of the heart itself, this collection of poems explores the possibilities for love and feeling in a world besieged by tragedies in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and elsewhere.

At times lyrical, at times satirical, at times aphoristic, Heartwall explores the complex relationship between the personal and the political, between our individual perceptions and the larger vision they suggest. These are poems that ask forgiveness, offer praise, and carry enough irony never to seek redemption. They are, at heart, love poems. According to the late William Matthews, Jackson's poems tell us "what it means to belong in history. . . . The wonderful amplitude. . . testifies that we can live with such chaos and not lie about it or ignore it: indeed the poems are a demonstration of how we might do such a thing".

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  • Title Heartwall
  • Author Richard Jackson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA
  • Date 2000
  • ISBN 9781558492578 / 1558492577
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.11 x 0.25 in (23.42 x 15.52 x 0.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00024205
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2001, Page 64

About the author

Richard Jackson is author of four previous collections of poems and two books of criticism. His poems have been translated into journals in Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Czech Republic, Spain, and Austria. He teaches at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.
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