Richard Jackson is the author of seventeen books of poems, most recently The Heat as Framed: New and Select Poems and Dispatches: Prose Poems, as well as nearly twenty editions, translations, critical work and interview books. He has also edited over 40 chapbooks, mostly from eastern Europe, as well as Poetry Miscellany. He is winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA and NEH awards and the Order of Freedom from the President of Slovenia.

Other poems by Richard Jackson in Verse Daily:
July 5, 2014:   "Abraham's Journey" "Sorrow walked in my clothes before I did. Flocks..."
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" "A few deer pause inside the rain, more gauze..."
February 24, 2011:   "While You Were Away" "Sleeves of sunset hung empty over the brown hills...."
February 17, 2011:   "Visionary" "I could feel a few dying stars hovering over my shoulder..."
November 19, 2009:   "Point of View" "While his memories pace back and forth like expectant..."
June 10, 2009:   "After All This" "After all this love, after the birds rip like scissors..."
July 3, 2002:  "Not Here" "My days are deer leaping from sight..."

Books by Richard Jackson:

Other poems on the web by Richard Jackson:
Four poems
"Rione Sant'angelo, Outside La Taverna del Ghetto in Rome"
Six poems
"Nothing but Trouble"
Two poems
"That's What I'm Talking About"
"Silences"
"Soundings"

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