Background
Jackson, Richard Paul was born on November 17, 1946 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard P. and Mary M. Jackson.
(Poetry. ""His lines are witnesses of tremendous density a...)
Poetry. ""His lines are witnesses of tremendous density and speed of the more ever powerful NOW in human history. As technology had to adapt to the godhead's voracious needs, so the poets have to eat exactly the same spot with even higher lucidity, more intelligence and compassion to mourn, to understand and to redeem. Richard Jackson does it with more inclusiveness than anybody else I know. His writing helps us to make sense. It protects us against suffocation. It bathes our lives"" Toma alamun.
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(Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan that is both e...)
Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan that is both elegiac and hopeful, but also playing off the notion of the "hart" walls erected to corral deer for a medieval hunt that was more a slaughter, and evoking the very physiology of the heart itself, this collection of poems explores the possibilities for love and feeling in a world besieged by tragedies in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and elsewhere. At times lyrical, at times satirical, and written in a surrealistic style that ranges from the formal to the aphoristic, Heartwall explores the complex and sometimes confounding relationship between the personal and the political, between our individual perceptions and the larger vision they suggest. These are poems that ask forgiveness, offer praise, and carry enough irony never to seek redemption. They are, at heart, love poems. According to the late William Matthews, Jackson's poems tell us "what it means to belong in history. . . . The wonderful amplitude . . . testifies that we can live with such chaos and not lie about it or ignore it: indeed the poems are a demonstration of how we might do such a thing."
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Jackson, Richard Paul was born on November 17, 1946 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Richard P. and Mary M. Jackson.
Bachelor, Merrimack College, 1969. Master of Arts, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1976.
Teacher Drury High School, North Adams, Massachusetts, 1970—1973. Professor University Tennessee, Chattanooga, since 1976. Adjunct teacher Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont, since 1987.
Board director World Trade Council, Chattanooga.
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Married Margaret L. McCarthy, June 28, 1970 (divorced May 1, 1996). Married Theresa A. Harvey, June 20, 1999.