Chapter 16 reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY

Hunger and Awe

Didi Jackson merges the sacred with the natural world in My Infinity

By Emily Choate | October 29, 2024

Didi Jackson’s luminous new collection, My Infinity, opens with a poem titled “Witness,” signaling the fiercely attentive series of observations to come. In the poem, set on a lush day in Vermont’s Green Mountains, the leaves on the birch trees surrounding the speaker “clap at the sun with their gilded hands … these trees too raise their open palms / to pray.”

These mountains “must know // summer is closing,” the speaker realizes. “It is their secret; / I am good with secrets.”