Past Event
Saturday, July 22, 2017, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Gary Jackson: Missing You, Metropolis
7461 Girard Avenue, San Diego, 92037
Cost: Free
With humor and the serious collector’s delight, South Carolina poet 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. “Jackson integrates the comic-book world of superheroes like Spider-Man and Batman into his world as a black adolescent in Kansas. The finale is gentle, almost anticlimactic, as he recalls how his superheroes let him ‘inhabit a world a page removed from our own,’ hinting at the grace of (temporary) escapism.” — San Francisco Chronicle.