Title: Holding Company
Description: In *Holding Company*, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty, and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, and Dante Rossetti.
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, African Americans, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Time periods: 21st century