Transparent Gestures: Poems.

Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Paperback First Edition Thus (1989), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition Thus (1989), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; “National Book Critics Circle Award Winner” sticker at front face is a little rubbed; some mild rubbing in general to wrapper covers; this is not a Remainder, but a local bookstore has placed a tiny dot at bottom edge to denote "used book"; the.binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. An attractive reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and unobtrusive imperfections. Appears unopened and unread. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.5 x 0.35 inches). 68 pages. Language: English. Weight: 5 ounces. Trade Paperback. Rodney Glenn Jones (born 1950) is an American poet and retired professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He was born and raised near Falkville, Alabama, gained a B.A. in 1971 at the University of Alabama and an M.F.A. at the University of North Carolina in 1973. He taught poetry at high schools in Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia from 1974 to 1978 and then became a writer in residence at Virginia Intermont College from 1979 to 1984. He was appointed Professor of English at the Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, from which he retired in 2012. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for Transparent Gestures. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), the Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, and a Harper Lee Award.