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1994 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Poetry nominee and winner of the PEN Center USA/West Literary Award for Poetry, 1994. "Marshall's . . . meticulously selected words hit their target dead center while readers are still caught up in the atmosphere he so beautifully paints."--Publishers Weekly¶"Highly recommended."--Library Journal
Price: $11.95
Pages: 96
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
01 November 1993
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781566890151
Format: Paperback
“Marshall is a master image maker and an original voice at a time when many American poets are doing imitations of each other. —Choice Magazine
“There is a daring in his poems . . . that I find exhilarating, original and experimental, he remains a poet of Eros—intensely human, loving, and engaged with the world.” —Morton Marcus
“The power of Jack Marshall’s poetry is disconcerting because of its unadorned nakedness. . . . There is no far on the lean bones of his words.” —Library Journal
“Poetry that parallels closely (as it invents it) the consciousness of our time.” —Andrei Codrescu
“Marshall never fakes or obscures or relents; he is his own man and speaks true.” —Poetry
“There is a daring in his poems . . . that I find exhilarating, original and experimental, he remains a poet of Eros—intensely human, loving, and engaged with the world.” —Morton Marcus
“The power of Jack Marshall’s poetry is disconcerting because of its unadorned nakedness. . . . There is no far on the lean bones of his words.” —Library Journal
“Poetry that parallels closely (as it invents it) the consciousness of our time.” —Andrei Codrescu
“Marshall never fakes or obscures or relents; he is his own man and speaks true.” —Poetry
Jack Marshall was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, he 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.