Jack Marshall – författare

“Marshall’s canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend every thing from string beans to string theory.”—PoetrySoulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while “riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme,” Marshall’s distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several award-winning poetry collections.

Praise for Jack Marshall: "[Marshall] understands that all worlds, the material and the spiritual, are one, and that the neighborhoods and cities that no longer exist can be conjured by memory and reanimated by art."--San Francisco Chronicle From "Spiral Trace": Only on the way down does the sun make my day, as in a grove of trees, a stroll will smell of pharmacy eucalyptus, sage, menthol. Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall's poetry has received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a finalist nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.

Jack Marshall draws linkages between past, present, and future to advocate for appreciating what we have, and being better stewards of it.From “Birth took the bait”:Beaks of birds who earthward breaktheir songs, in drought soarto clouds for a drink,a sip of what earth doesn’t offeranymore, and summer vanishes,like a stain that was once a shore.Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Marshall has received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.