Missing You, Metropolis: Poems

Missing You, Metropolis: Poems

<p><b>Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize</b></p><br><p><b><i>The exploits you find in my comics </i></b><br><b><i>are no more probable </i></b><br><b><i>than snow in Sunnyvale. </i></b><br><b><i>I'm not as black as you dream. </i></b><br><b><i> </i>―from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is </b></p><p><b>Missing You, Metropolis</b></p><p>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.</p>