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Whiting Award winner Jackson's fifth poetry collection (after Roll Deep) concerns familial love, lust, civil rights, urban renewal, and a painful divorce, disparate topics he aims to unify with frequent references to Albert Camus's philosophy of the absurd. As Camus explains in his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," humankind resembles the king of Greek legend who continually pushed a rock uphill only to see it come crashing down. Most...Log In or Sign Up to Read More