Richard Jones, Author Copper Canyon Press $10 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-042-9
Jones ( Country of Air ) writes brief, simple poems about isolated incidents while gracefully alluding to the complex relationships underlying them. The view from an abandoned house reeking with the ``smell of urine'' reveals a ``small, white, /...
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Richard Jones, Author Copper Canyon Press $12 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55659-068-9
Jones (At Last We Enter Paradise) writes long, meditative poems that are less tranquil than they appear at first glance. Although his tone is quiet and his progress seems measured, he can change direction in midstream-narratively, dramatically-with...
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Richard Jones, Author . Pelican $21 (159p) ISBN 978-1-58980-299-5
This collection of the homestyle Southern dishes Jones prepares at his Queens, N.Y., restaurant brims with familiar favorites, such as Corn and Smoked Oyster Fritters, and Collard Greens and Turnip Greens with Smoked Ham Hocks and Smoked Neck Bones.
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Richard Jones, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55659-317-8
Jones is nothing if not sincere, and his fluent free verse and glowing prose poems pursue some very traditional goals: “I tell my students I don't have the wisdom/ to explain beauty and mystery,” he declares, but beauty and mystery...
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Richard Jones. Chatwin, $17 trade paper (254p) ISBN 978-1-63398-089-1
A young man with the power to converse with trees searches for identity, community, and meaning in Jones’s dense, ponderous debut. Orphaned early in life, Ray Holdman has always been at the mercy of his uncontrollable ability. Liable to be pulled...
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