Roll Deep

This breakthrough volume appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to explore human intimacy and war.

In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental-his "crew." The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of t...