My Infinity : Poems

Jackson, Didi

ISBN 10: 1636281605 / ISBN 13: 9781636281605

Published by Red Hen Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Infinity : Poems
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636281605
• ISBN 13: 9781636281605
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

WINNER of the 2025 Tennessee Book Award in Poetry

In her second collection, My Infinity, Didi Jackson continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist.

These poems investigate both sacred and natural spaces. Her poems move grief and emotional suffering to language as a site of recovery and renewal. Much of this collection is ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint. As the first artist to arguably use abstraction, her radical work brims with enigmatic botanical images painted to grasp the seemingly boundless and hermetic realm of the dead. Similarly, Jackson’s poems explore plant life and natural species in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where perceived thresholds blur in acts of spiritual reimagining. This is a book that questions all that is endless, all that has been thought as limiting, and all that remains unknown.

About the Author

Didi Jackson is the author of Moon Jar (Red Hen Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review, the New Yorker, Oxford American, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for The Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a finalist for the Meringoff Prize in Poetry. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.