Richard Jackson

Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets

CHOICE Award Book

Included are Stan Plumly, Mark Strand, James Wright, James Tate, Heather McHugh, WS Merwin, Michael Harper, David Ignatow, John Ashbery, Jean Valentine, Miller Wiliams, Carole Muske, Marvin Bell, Dara Wier, Richard Wilbur, Donald Finkel, Linda Pastan, Robert Creeley,Donald Hall, John Hollander, Stanley Kunitz, Maxine Kumin, Philp Booth, Robert Pack, Daniel Epstein, David St John, Robert Penn Warren, AR Ammons, William Stafford, Fred Chappell

Selected Works

Poetry, Art

The Heart's Many Doors

41 American poets respond to drawings by Slovene Artist Metka Krasovec that are themselves responses to Emily Dickinson lines.

Poetry

Traversings

Poems sent as responses to each other over the course of a year

Retrievals

THE TRAIL

When do you realize the selves you left behind
have gone on without you, living the many lives
you now begin to resemble? So the day hesitates
as if caught in headlights. So the words you write
seem like nonsense someone left on your desk.
The trees pretend to be listening. The owl cares less
who you are. If you are lucky there’s a single word
you can take refuge behind. It seems there is
something happening of great importance but
the heart’s trail guide herself is lost. Almost invisible,
the ants carry bits of leaf twice their weight
back to the nest. The warning squirrels won’t stop
warning. Then you see that what you have written
are wrong directions, scribbled in a language
of condolences, but unable to apologize, missing
the pronouns, missing a destination, missing yourself.

Resonance (Spanish Edition)

Very brief description goes here

OUT OF PLACE

Isn't everything and everyone from a place they are no longer at, that is, out of place?

RESONANCE

January 2010, Ashland Poetry Press. Cover by Metka Krasovec, Slovenia.

Greatest Hits

Puddinghouse Chapbook, 2004

Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems

Ashland U Press, Ohio, 2003

Heartwall

Juniper Prize Winning Book from UMass Press, 2000