Living on the Hurricane Coast by Robb Jackson Living on the Hurricane Coast contains poems that stem from Jackson’s transition from his northern roots to South Texas. The poems originate from Jackson’s daily journal writing and are informed by close observation of the place he now calls home, Corpus Christi and the surrounding Coastal Bend of the Gulf of Mexico, including Padre Island. These are poems that create a vivid sense of place and of place transformed by seasons, weather, storms, and light. They trace also the ways in which we can be changed and affected by our natural environs, especially if, like Jackson, we take the time to look at and give voice to what surrounds us. About the author: Robb Jackson was born and raised in Ohio, where he spent much of his time growing up exploring the water, beaches, coves and swamps along Lake Erie. Fifteen years ago he exchanged his sweet water origins for a saltwater life on the coastal bend of the Gulf of Mexico in South Texas where he writes and teaches at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. This is his first collection of poems. click here to learn more about the author ISBN 0-9718361-5-9 Poetry / $13.95

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"Living on the Hurricane Coast documents the search for home we all experience. These mature, meditative poems explore the tension between holding on and letting go as we struggle to stay connected to the world, the stars, sea, birds, plants, and each other. Jackson’s reverence for the natural world comes through in lush, sensory descriptions. There is much joy in these poems, the earned joy of someone who has lived through the storms to see the process of regeneration begin again. They show us that finding a home, putting down roots, is a process that never ends. And Jackson reminds us to stop once in a while, to smile, to laugh at the world and our place in it, in awe at the pure luck of being alive in such a place."
-Jim Daniels, author of Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems

"Exile has been the fate of many poets, and the human heart is rightly wary of dislocation. Robb Jackson ponders the wounds such experience brings, and in Living on the Hurricane Coast, lights the rich poignancy of loss, and leads the reader into the new centering of his life which patience and wisdom have brought. These are poems for all of us who look to somewhere else as home, yet find our living and our lives far away in an alien place which nearly imperceptibly becomes a home."
-Howard McCord, author of The Complete Poems, and The Man Who Walked to the Moon