Synopses & Reviews
On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.
Review
"Jones' poems cannot be absorbed in a single reading; but amply reward prolonged scrutiny." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Jones' poems cannot be absorbed in a single reading; but amply reward prolonged scrutiny." Publishers Weekly
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.
Table of Contents
Academic Subjects A Blasphemy Burnt Oil And Hawk Carpe Diem Caught Dangers Every Day There Are New Memos An Explanation Of The Exhibit The Foolishness In Manufacturing Just So The Kitchen Gods Last Night Among The Very Young Life Of Sundays Mimosa Mule My Manhood News Of The Cranes On The Bearing Of Waitresses One Of The Citizens Pastoral For Derrida Pure Mathematics Pussy The Sadness Of Early Afternoons Serious Partying The Weepers Who Runs The Country Winter Retreat: Homage To Martin Luther King, Jr.