Author Presentation with Didi Jackson
March 21, 2025 | 7:30-9:00pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm)
Admission $20
Pre-Registration is strongly recommended; walk-ins welcome if space allows
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Books will be available for sale and signature at the event and through our local bookseller, Cloud & Leaf Bookstore.
“These poems unbolt a portal, allowing Jackson to access her own visionary powers, the language of ‘hunger and awe.’ The result is a poetry so alive that it has the capacity to cradle the dead, to offer a ‘mercy that strips us naked to each other.’ I am moved and transformed by Didi Jackson’s infinity.”
—Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry
“In the beautifully rendered book of poems, My Infinity by Didi Jackson, the speaker’s voice is meditative, pensive, and warm. Tonally, these poems represent that time of day which is near dusk and twilight, when the day is mostly finished, but is scarred with too much knowledge. My Infinity grapples with the aftermath of a lover’s suicide, alongside new love and joy. Whether it is corresponding with the visual art of Hilma af Klint or the natural world, nothing is too small for this speaker to look at, as with a microscope, and correspond with, as one might correspond with the moon. Here is a poet of witness of awe alongside the music of pain and grief, and of the ‘mercy that strips us naked to each other.’”
—Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World and OBIT
March 21-Writing Event with Poet, Didi Jackson-Main Room
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
