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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Marcus Jackson was born in Toledo, Ohio. He earned a BA from the University of Toledo and continued his poetry studies at NYU and as a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have appeared in such publications as The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and Tin House. His first collection of poetry, Neighborhood Register, was released in 2011. His second collection, Pardon My Heart (TriQuarterly Books), is forthcoming in 2018. He lives with his wife and son in Columbus, where he teaches in the MFA program at Ohio State.
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Woman in Secret
Crack Cook
Separation
I'm watching a film full of our kind
of longing — the subtle, gradually mounting,
late evening kind of longing. The female lead's
main radiance is a mouth through with all
the common town's lukewarm words.
There's a man, too, in a brackish hat,
his jaw in one scene cutting the dusk
horizon as he turns to walk away.
The cinematography is a taken-apart
harmonica lain on dark felt,
making me finally see and praise the way
we left each other ' disassembled
and motionless enough to be touched fully
by an intricate, tireless silence.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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