Zion(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by TjJarrett Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2014 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3356-1, ISBN: 0-8093-3356-2 "Zion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effects of the civil rights movement on one family. Jarrett lovingly explores the minutiae of mortality and race across three generations of “Dark Girls” who have come together one summer to grieve and to remember as one of them passes to the farther shore—a place beyond retribution, where there is only forgiveness. The Mississippi of Jarrett’s ..."
Ain't No Grave(1st Edition) (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by TjJarrett Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 2013 by New Issues Poetry & Prose ISBN-13: 978-1-936970-18-6, ISBN: 1-936970-18-X "Poetry. African American Studies. "Here is a voice of complete authority: I think of Willa Cather in all her fullness of range and depth, her grief, sureness of step, and ease with life's own half-familiar withholdings. TJ Jarrett pierces the listener with her new—seemingly accustomed, but new—unsettlings; I was more lonely before I heard this voice."—Jean Valentine"
Crab Orchard Ser. in Poetry Zion by TjJarrett 75 Pages, Published 2014 by Siu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3357-8, ISBN: 0-8093-3357-0 "Zion, the latest collection of poems by TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the resonating effects of the civil rights movement on one family."
