Synopses & Reviews
Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems offers a poignant look at the American landscape: factories, restaurants, farms, empty fallout shelters, glorified malls, and transfigured filling stations scattered across the land. This collection oscillates from the personal to the political, from the religious to the secular, never losing sight of the possibility of joy.
About the Author
Rodney Jones was born in northern Alabama and is now a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A former Guggenheim fellow, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 1990. His most recent of six other collections, Elegy for the Southern Drawl, received the Southeastern Booksellers Association Award for poetry in 1999. Jones"s poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and other periodicals, and in five annual editions of The Best American Poetry.