the poems are given Roman numerals for titles. In one [Major] Jackson recalls, with bewilderment, how a teacher at Reynolds Elementary, unable to commit to memory names such as "Tarik, Shanequa, Amari and Aisha," nicknamed the entire class after French painters.
In another poem Jackson finds solace in his grandfather's backyard garden, shielded from encroaching crime, blight and despair.
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Poetic nuances of Phila.
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