Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

The exploits you find in my comics
are no more probable
than snow in Sunnyvale.
I'm not as black as you dream.
--from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is

Missing You, Metropolis

With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 10/26/2010
ISBN: 9781555975722
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.15w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 76
Foreword 10/17/2010