Footprints: Poems

7,Braiding the personal and historic, the philosophic and scientific, Footprints by Richard Jackson takes us from conflicts in places like Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Ethiopia and the American south to a kind of transcendent and redemptive vision. Guiding it all is a kind of jazz improvisation that follows the lead of musicians like Ben Webster and Wayne Shorter, and that gathers fragments into an inclusiveness and wholeness that Tomaz Salamun called a vulnerable voice that blossoms and transforms us.