“In Letters from Spickert Knob, the wise and talented Michael Jackman builds an ode to love. His warm affectionate paean to a new relationship takes a DIY approach, literally insulating pipes, sealing the foundation, reinforcing the deck, and (while limping on crutches) planting seedlings on a homestead that provides a luscious parallel to the union being built. From sex to eating olives and raising chickens, the poet can hear “the homestead inhaling.”If the gate is lopsided, the ripe persimmons still fall, and even when things blow over in storms, Jackman understands that “if everything becomes unbuilt/some things can be built again.” Here’s that rich, mature love that anyone hopes for now displayed, often in couplets (of course!), by Jackman’s splendid construction.”
– Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst: Poems and A Friend Sails in on a Poem
LETTERS FROM SPICKERT KNOB is available in a print edition and also for the Kindle.