Gorgeous Chaos
New and Selected Poems: 1965-2001
Poems by Jack Marshall

This vital collection of new and selected poems gathers 35 years of Jack Marshall's best work. In it, Marshall never lets readers forget that they are meat-on-the-bone, organic beings subject to the opposing drives of inherited culture and the urge toward greater consciousness. In signature language that is unadorned, yet musical and beautifully precise, Marshall explores the recent innovative advances in science and ecology, the complications of growing up with an Arabic Jewish heritage, of love, loss and memory in a world demystified by harsh politics and re-enchanted by compassion.

Also available by this author:

• The Steel Veil
• From Baghdad to Brooklyn
• Arabian Nights
• Millennium Fever
• Sesame