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Things That Happen Once: New Poems Paperback - 1997
by Rodney Jones
Things That Happen Once, Jones's fifth volume, may well be his finest yet, combining currents of southern evangelism, contemporary sophistication, and passionate moral engagement. Its forty-one poems display an exciting power of language and open up new visions of inheritance and parenthood, sexuality and change. In doing so, these poems release energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.
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Things That Happen Once, Jones's fifth volume, may well be his finest yet, combining currents of southern evangelism, contemporary sophistication, and passionate moral engagement. Its forty-one poems display an exciting power of language and open up new visions of inheritance and parenthood, sexuality and change. In doing so, these poems release energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.
From the rear cover
Rodney Jones writes: 'These poem issue from the touchstones of my life: the powers of childhood, the stoical relationships of men, familial and sexual communion with women, the kindred lives of animals, the creation and embodiment of myth- and finally, the wish to evoke the sources of present attitudes and behaviors...'
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- Title Things That Happen Once: New Poems
- Author Rodney Jones
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition, 2
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, Boston, MA
- Date 1997-04-23
- ISBN 9780395856017 / 0395856019
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.52 x 0.35 in (20.90 x 14.02 x 0.89 cm)
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Themes
- Holiday: Valentine's Day
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044941
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.6
Media reviews
Jones won Elizabeth Bishop's support for his first book and the National Book Critics Circle award in 1990 for his third, Transparent Gestures. In his newest work, he continues to plumb the depths of rural southern life. His poetics are subtle, but his imagery, his stories, and his wry observations of the transcendent and the inexplicable reach your consciousness like lightning on a hot, dark night. Jones writes about when he tasted his first Coca-Cola and watched an electrocution, when television arrived in his remote Alabama valley, when civilization intruded in a big way and "the lights spread everywhere." His poems accelerate quickly, and you find yourself in the midst of a church service in which people are talking in tongues, in a car crash, in jail, or at the scene of a murder. These are stirring, surprising poems about the gritty details and hard lessons of life in the South, about desegregation, pot smoking, horses, love, family, and spirituality. Booklist, ALA
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