“Letter to Brooks,” Major Jackson’s tour de force poem in Hoops (2006), is a daring act of publicly intellectual intimacy. An “epistolary chat,” the poem is an unfurling act of gratitude. We witness Jackson bearing witness to luck and legacy, to the happy accident of knowing your idols—and the ripple effect of shepherding those generous […]
Marion Wrenn
Marion Wrenn: Editor’s Introduction
I. In the days after the tragedies of 9/11, some of us sought refuge in movie theaters. In fact, one theater in the frozen section of lower Manhattan opened its doors to shell-shocked patrons and offered free soda and popcorn and movies. God bless a film like Rat Race in days like these. But as […]