And All These Roads be Luminous: Poems Selected and New (Jewish Lives (Paperback)) - Softcover

"Like the magician she is, [she] constantly surprises us with an unforeseen twist that turns clich and commonality into manna and nectar." --Black Book Review "[S]inuous and inexhaustible exhalations, complex riffs rich in sensuous detail and resonant with psychological insight." --Booklist

Drawing from earlier works contained in the chapbooks VooDoo/Love Magic, The Greenville Club, Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E, and The Man with the White Liver, And All These Roads Be Luminous is filled with an impressive variety of characters engaged in compelling explorations of identity, creativity, spiritual experience, and the rites and rituals of race and sexuality. Jackson moves with ease from the personal to the historical: filled alternately with wonder, righteous anger, tenderness, and a tangible intensity, Jackson's is rich and passionate verse brimming with poetic surprises.