Richard Jackson is the author of five books of poems—most recently Heartwall, a Juniper Prize winner. He has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Witter-Bynner Fellowships. Richard Jackson has the compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. His writing helps readers to make sense of the corruption
Richard Jackson is the author of five books of poems—most recently Heartwall, a Juniper Prize winner. He has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Witter-Bynner Fellowships. Richard Jackson has the compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. His writing helps readers to make sense of the corruptions of the world.
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Paperback
,
198 pages
Published
March 17th 2006
by Ashland Poetry Press
(first published 2003)
I started Richard Jackson's Unauthorized Autobiography in the spring, then put it down. I picked it up again recently and I read it now like I once read the bible. The plan is to never finish it, for rereading the parts that save me.