Caitlin Jackson is a poet who searches her everyday for the epic and the mythical.
HOW TO HOST A DEMON
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Caitlin Jackson’s fourth collection of poetry may be her most honest, raw, and relatable to date. Employing diabolical and mythical imagery, she explores her own depths of hell as well as the proud triumphs of addiction, recovery, and life.
In How to Host a Demon, there are not only ghost visitations from the past, portents of disasters in the future, but also, always-the near-irresistible temptation for self-destruction in the present. “Continue into daylight” with this brave writer as she wrestles her demons with wit, self-awareness, and a keen understanding of what it means to be human.
Throwing the Bones
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Using relics from past lives and premonitions of the future, Caitlin Jackson’s new book of poems casts a bewitching spell.
Throwing the Bones borrows from the long shadows of history, both personal and mythical, to successfully navigate the present. These poems live in the wide-open spaces between Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After. Here are wicked stepsisters who slice off their own feet, knights who tumble from their horses, and dragons that sometimes win. Here are the darker sides of fairy tale and myth, the parts parents leave out when telling bedtime stories.
Though Caitlin’s book may explore the bleakest corners of life, including addiction and mental illness, she doesn’t end the story there. The poems thrive in darkness, but just before the credits roll, like a hand shooting from a fresh grave, something surprising appears. It is no ill omen however, but just a porch light— left on and waiting for you to find your way in from the night.
River, Run!
In Caitlin Jackson’s second book of poetry, River, Run she introduces readers to a world of feminity embedded in myth. As one becomes acquainted with her village and river of the title, they are drawn deep into a domain of women and rushing water. The women in River, Run succumb to their fears while still holding their heads high, while embracing their vulnerability as part of their greatest strength as well as their weakness.
As the women in the poems fight their way through victories and defeats, suffer through bouts of sickness and fortitude, the reader is carried with them down the river that flows along every page. The waters are beckoning- Enter into a world of magic and contradictions, where distress settles down uneasily alongside solace and women rise out of their own ashes, power streaming from their fingertips.
Myths for Small Matters
Dislocations and disruptions abound in these powerful poems. Figures from myth are “always changing, bones cracking, fingers melting into hooves,” and the poet herself is enmeshed in the turmoil. Yet even as office life and its “insect clicks” close in, she stays connected to the planet, to its sunlight and dust, palms and pelicans, snow and purple mountains—the spinning home she makes for herself and for us all in her remarkable first book. —Pamela Alexander
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