Richard Jackson

My Books

The Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Published by Red Hen Press, April 2010

RESONANCE
Resonance (Ashland Poetry Press, Jan 2010)

"It's true. Richard Jackson's 'underground river beneath the Nile is six times bigger.' many small rivers joined it (him) and empowered his voice. Yes, he does this to his peers. You, tender, wise, wounded, generous and responsible child, your melody is unmistakably yours. Have you eaten us? Do we flow too?"
--Tomaz Salamun

"Richard Jackson has become one of our most important poets. His subjects are those for which poetry originally came into being. The essentials are his songs, his precepts, his adoration, his companions. It isn't any simple solace he offers, but it's solace nonetheless that he lends us."
--James Tate

"What you find in Richard Jackson's great heart and spirit is poetry of generosity and fearless attention you won't find anywhere else. RESONANCE stops me in my tracks, it shifts my brianwaves."
--Dara Wier

"it is the combination of soulfulness, intellectual rigor, and a courtly, almost Petrarchan ardor for the beloved that has always fueled Richard Jackson's poetry. They are also poems of dazzling associative rigor -- funny, elegiac, and political by turns. I wish that more of our poets possessed his big heart and breadth, and RESONANCE is his best collection yet."
--David Wojahn

Potovanje Sonca (Journey of the Sun)
Translated with Ana Jelnikar

Heartwall, U Mass Juniper Prize Winner

Greatest Hits
12 poems and essay on the work

Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems
Selections from 1983-2003 including several new poems and selections from Petrarchan Sonnets

The Fire Beneath The Moon
50 Slovene Poets, facing Slovene

Heartwall
Juniper Prize winner

Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems
Includes about 70 poems. Autumn House Press, 2004

Svetovi Narazen
Translations are by several Slovene poets

Falling Stars
Artwork by Else Kendrot; 4 monologues

Heart's Bridge
Several poems and a Canzone, different selection than half Lives

Alive All Day
Cleveland State University Press Prize Winner

Worlds Apart
U Alabama Press prize winner, Published 1987, Reprinted 1989


Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets
Introduction and selection of poems by Ales Debeljak, Alojz Ihan, Brane Mozetic, and Jure Potokar

Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets
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

The Dismantling of Time in Contemporary American Poetry
Robert Penn Warren, John Ashbery, James Wright, Charles Simic, John Hollander, Denise Levertov

Selected Works

Poetry Translation
The Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Translated with Susan Thomas and Deborah Brown
Poetry
RESONANCE
January 2010, Ashland Poetry Press. Cover by Metka Krasovec, Slovenia.
Greatest Hits
Puddinghouse Chapbook, 2004
Heartwall
Juniper Prize Winning Book from UMass Press, 2000
Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems
Sonnets and a Canzone based on Petrarch's Rime Sparse
Svetovi Narazen
Translations of Jackson's poems into Slovene
Falling Stars
hand sewn and printed, Flagpond Press, 2002
Heart's Bridge
Limited Edition, Aureole Press, 1999, Pterarchan Poems
Alive All Day
Cleveland State University Press, 1992
Worlds Apart
U of Alabama Press Prize Winner
Part of the Story
Grove Press, 1983
Translation of book of poems by Alexsander Persolja
Anthology
The Fire Beneath The Moon
50 Slovene Poets, facing Slovene
Double Vision: Four Slovenian Poets
Aleph Press, Ljubljana, 1993
Interviews
Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets
30 Interviews, U of Alabama Press, 1983 Choice Award
Essays
The Dismantling of Time in Contemporary American Poetry
Philosophical essays on 6 poets, U of Alabama Press, 1987 Agee Award

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