Saturday Poetry

Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Tremble’ by Major Jackson with Roger Guetta

This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Tremble’ and is by Major Jackson. “Major Jackson’s books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.

Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. In 2006-07, he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University”. – Source: Poetry Foundation.

I have matched @draman – Roger Guetta’s image ‘Ontological – Hysterical Mind Theatre’ with this poem. You can view and follow him here on Instagram.

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‘Tremble’ – Major Jackson

“My neighbor is velvety and kicks serious game.

So sweet garlic refuses to hang tight

in his mouth. He pulls women to his wide chest

each time as if he’s won the Lotto. He rocks

them gently and gentler. My neighbor

is a master spooner. He knows not of desire, but only

the rules of engagement. He says, I miss

having Skype on all night so I can listen

to your breathing. He floats in his museum,

of gams, drifting from frame to frame”.

‘Ontological – Hysterical Mind Theatre’ – Draman – Roger Guetta

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