Where the Wind Comes From

Richard Jackson has published twenty-six books including fifteen books of poems, most recently Take Five (co-authored, Finishing Line, 2020), Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018) Traversings (Anchor and Plume, 2016), Retrivals (C&R Press, 2014), Out of Place (Ashland, 2014), Resonancia (Barcelona, 2014, a translation of Resonance from Ashland, 2010), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004), Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland, 2003), and Heartwall (UMass, Juniper Prize 2000), as well as four chapbook adaptations from Pavese and other Italian poets, and a chapbook of prose poems, Fifties. The Heart’s Many Doors is a collection of poems by American poets on the artists Metka Krasoveč (Wings press, 2017). He has translated a book of poems by Alexsander Peršolja (Potvanje Sonca / Journey of the Sun) (Kulturno Drustvo Vilenica: Slovenia, 2007) as well as Last Voyage, a book of translations of the early-20th-century Italian poet, Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen, 2