Bobweaving Detroit

<p>Bobweaving Detroit is Murray Jackson's final collection of poems.  Dr. Jackson a highly respected educator political figure and philanthropist as well as an internationally known poet offers work rich in the history and hope of Detroit's Black urban—and urbane—tradition.  Jackson was a Classicist as well as an athlete an inspiring teacher and an inspired humanist whose poems engage the blues vernacular a wide palate of visual arts and a broad spectrum of musical sources.    <br /><br />Murray Jackson was always a poet though he first published with Broadside Press Detroit's and the nation's longest continuously publishing Black poetry press after a long career of public service during which he opened Detroit's first community college and many other educational and artistic venues to his fellow citizens and scholars.   Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts humanities and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations—his "bobweaving"— with Langston Hughes Julius Caesar Mozart Duke Ellington Archie Moore and Marianne Moore William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd.</p>