$14.99
Just as her book, The Never-Ending Poem by the Poets of Everything, brings the freshest of approaches to a body of work, From Other Tongues is equally original and delightful. Mary Jackson’s language and imagination invite me into a mind well-traveled and I am an unabashed admirer. I want to thank her for writing such a book, it will be coming on and off my shelf with frequency.
–Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate Emerita
Mary Strong Jackson’s From Other Tongues is a book of poetry that makes us reconsider the most commonplace words, by making us more aware of the concepts we can’t easily express because their nuances are not easily rendered in the English language. It’s a book for word-lovers, and philosophers who have pondered how to say, or approximate the unsayable.
–Darryl Lorenzo Wellington — poet and Writing Fellow at the Center for Community Change
Jackson writes poems that illuminate words seemingly untranslatable into English. In poems that are sometimes spare and yet enlightening, she plays with the idea that language may unite us human beings. In her poems, words and meaning are fluid and moving. They will make you wonder; they will make you smile.
–Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-18, author of A Theory of Lipstick, Main Street Rag Publications.
From Other Tongues
by Mary Strong Jackson
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-237-6
2017
Mary Strong Jackson’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the Unites states and England. Her chapbooks include, The Never-Ending Poem, Witnesses, No Buried Dogs, Between Door and Frame, and Clippings. Mary recently moved from the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico to the green expanses of watery Wisconsin.
Bobbie Lee Lovell (verified owner) –
In From Other Tongues, Mary Strong Jackson presents words from languages as diverse as Arabic and Inuit. Her poetic translations create intriguing narratives, as in “Litost” and “Tingo.” Within these, Jackson delights readers with images like “god-sky,” “oops-timed baby,” and “a wren’s breath of silence.” A glossary at the book’s end contains more succinct definitions, enabling readers to encounter each poem organically — to experience meaning before being informed of it. I recommend this chapbook for lovers of words and language.