Reuben Jackson (1956–2024)

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Fingering the Keys (1991) 5 copias

Scattered Clouds: New & Selected Poems (2019) 3 copias

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Otros nombres: Jackson, Reuben M.
Fecha de nacimiento: 1956-10-01
Fecha de fallecimiento: 2024-02-16
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Augusta, Georgia, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Washington, DC, USA
Causa de fallecimiento: stroke
Lugares de residencia: Washington, DC, USA
Vermont, USA
Educación: Goddard College, Vermont (Bx)
University of the District of Columbia (MLS)
Ocupaciones: poet
jazz historian
museum curator
teacher
music critic
Organizaciones: Duke Ellington Collection, Smithsonian Institution
Burlington High School, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, University of the District of Columbia

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Scattered Clouds: New & Selected Poems por Reuben Jackson

I had a bit of difficulty with this book of poetry. Some of it was over my head, either because I did not know to what the author was referring or from simply not being a part of the world of jazz as I've been hard of hearing for over twenty years. This author's life (and consequently his poetry) are largely entrenched in the world of jazz. For the poems that dealt with race or my beloved city of Washington, DC, I really loved the understated way Jackson made his thoughts known.

Here are two poems that definitely spoke to me.

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Coming Back Home
(Washington, D.C., spring 2018)

Walk down
A formerly black street--

One which is now
Whiter than northern New England

Yet the gradation of light
Knows you

As does the breeze
Humid as longing

They hold you

Like her hands did
Once

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If You Met My Mother

She would be warm
And a bit nervous

Eyes darting between
The white stranger

In love with her baby

And some semi-distant space
Between us

She who worried about my love life
(In high school and beyond)
Would find herself wrestling with race

While seeking a smile
Sturdy enough to last through

The pot roast she checks
Every other breath

Until silently
Stubbornly concluding

That this might
Be all right… (más)

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SqueakyChu | Sep 4, 2019 |

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