<p><b>Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize</b> <p/><b><i>The exploits you find in my comics <br>are no more probable <br>than snow in Sunnyvale. <br>I'm not as black as you dream. <br> </i>--from "Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is </b> <p/>With humor and the serious collector's delight, Gary Jackson imagines the comic-book worlds of Superman, Batman, and the X-Men alongside the veritable worlds of Kansas, racial isolation, and the gravesides of a sister and a friend.</p>
