Scattered Clouds
New and Selected Poems
By avoiding cumbersome punctuation and the formality of capitalization, Reuben Jackson lullabies his way into treasured-voice status, quiet yet forceful. A jazz scholar and former curator with the Smithsonian’s Duke Ellington Collection, Jackson was chosen for the Columbia Book Award in 1991 for his first collection, fingering the keys.
2 haiku
a bag lady stares
at a neglected mansion
crumbling in the rain
black history month:
everyone loves your people
until march arrives.
Reviewed by
Matt Sutherland
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