Rodney Jones, Author . Houghton Mifflin $22 (112p) ISBN 978-0-618-22417-3
Jones, who won the 1989 NBCC Award for Transparent Gestures, writes sweetly mordant poems that name (and absolve) instances of hypocrisy, futility, and joy. In "A Whisper Fight at the Peck Funeral Home," the immediate, ambivalent responses...
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Rodney Jones, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (246p) ISBN 978-0-618-62430-0
Jones, who grew up in rural Alabama, and whose mother and grandparents (the poems tell us) were farm workers, pursues gritty anecdotes that place him within a Southern narrative tradition from Robert Penn Warren to Yusef Komunyakaa and Dave Smith....
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Rodney Jones, Author Mariner Books $10.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-395-51063-6
In long, rambling stanzas, the speakers in these poems tackle complex philosophical issues, often with startling imagery: ``When coyotes hunt, they come as a clean silence / comes to a text.'' With extreme sensitivity, Jones ( The Unborn ) contrasts
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Rodney Jones, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-77143-3
The beauty of Jones's outstanding fifth collection (after Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems, 1993) lies in the way he employs control in order to evoke, not tame, the chaos of experience. Organized in four sections (Last Myths of the Pioneers,...
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Rodney Jones. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-47978-1
The gritty, capacious verse in this ninth book from Jones (Salvation Blues) pursues, and secures, the virtues of realist fiction: credible characters whose lives change as we read about them, in well-defined milieus (the Alabama where Jones grew up,
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Rodney Jones, Author, Lansbury, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (69p) ISBN 978-0-395-67526-7
Jones ( Transparent Gestures ) is a poet of many resources. One is diction, curious and distinctive. In ``The Privilege,'' the narrator glimpses ``the sullen, algebraic face of a cow,'' and our glimpse of the line sweetly detains us. For another,...
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