JACKSON, Imani Elizabeth
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“‘We are and were a Black family,’ Jackson writes and the dead matter of history hums. In this book of nearly subterranean intensity, I feel the poet hum, and it erodes borders between the poet's mouth and the river’s, between forms of matter and states of consciousness. I feel Black life too, in its impossible thickness, and all of this in a beautiful economy of language that seizes without coercion and shapes without chisel. Stark, lush, and streaming, these poems show me how spirit isn’t just born, it’s made.”
—Benjamin Krusling

Published by Futurepoem, 2024
Poetry