The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems

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Richard Jackson offers new poems and selected poems from twelve previous collections to celebrate his life in poetry. He was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work during the Balkan wars by the President of Slovenia during his work with the Slovene-based Peace and Sarajevo Committees of PEN International. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH, and two Witter-Bynner fellowships, a Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award, the Crazyhorse Prize in Poetry; he is the winner of five Pushcart Prizes and has appeared in Best American Poems as well as many other anthologies.