A review by amandam
Holding Company: Poems by Major Jackson

3.0

I loved the concept of the 10-line poems, and frequently the economy distilled a firestorm of emotion and imagery into a single powerful line: "the wounded children / set free to their turnstiles of wonder" from "Picket Monsters" or "Nightfall arrives through hemlocks, etching / tablets of planted bones" from "Headstones." Overall, though, the lines were too few and far between. I will likely incorporate "Life During Wartime" and "Heaven Goes Online" for my poetry students, but not much more from this collection.