Works by
Richard Jackson
(Poet, Writer)

Anthologies

• Double Vision: Four Slovene Poets (1992) by Ales Debeljak, Michael Biggins, Richard Jackson, and Tom Lozar

• The Fire Under the Moon: Contemporary Slovene Poetry (1999)

Non-fiction

• The Dismantling of Time in Contemporary Poetry (1988)

• Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (1984, 1988), Richard Jackson, ed.

Poetry

• Resonance (January 2010 release)

• Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004)
  In this collection of canzonieri, Richard Jackson improvises on the themes drawn from the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch.

• Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003)
  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.

• Heartwall (2000) -- Winner 2000 Juniper Prize
  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.

• Love's Veils: Imitations from Italian Poets (1998)

• Alive All Day (1992)

Other

• The Last Voyage: Poems of Giovannia Pascoli (Forthcoming), Deborah Brown, Richard Jackson, and Susan Thomas, co-translators.
  A book of translations from the Italian poet, Giovanni Pascoli.