Salvation Blues

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Jones, Rodney 저자(글)

Houghton Mifflin · 2007년 04월 05일

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Rodney Jones, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.Salvation Bluesreceived the 2006 Kingsley Tufts Award.
Rodney Jones has long been praised for his masterly storytelling and the bold southern voice he brings to his poetry. Salvation Blues celebrates the range and evolution of his work over a twenty-year period with one hundred selected poems -- including twenty-four bold pieces published only in this collection.
"[A] fine collection."
"For most of twenty years I have been reading Rodney Jones's poems, admiring the daring of his mind and attention, the intimacy of his own articulation . . . Salvation Blues is welcome and should bring him new discoverers." --W.S. Merwin
"For most of twenty years I have been reading Rodney Jones's poems, admiring the daring of his mind and attention, the intimacy of his own articulation . . . Salvation Blues is welcome and should bring him new discoverers." --W.S. Merwin "[Jones] is brilliant, wise, deeply sane, incredibly knowledgeable about the craft, tender, moving, honest, and -- pure. I love reading him. He gives me hope for poetry." --Gerald Stern "Reading his poems [is] a continually liberating experience. This is work that really matters." --Carl Dennis "It's Jones's age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that's sufficiently vast to contain multitudes." --Book World The Washington Post "[Jones's Salvation Blues] must surely place him in the pantheon of great living American poets." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[A] fine collection." Atlanta Journal Constitution "While this ample book will serve many readers as an introduction to Jones's work, it also contains surprises for his fans: 24 new poems (some of his best yet)." Publishers Weekly "Jones has a rich, Southern voice, disarmingly smooth, with a kick like moonshine and as satisfying as an afterglow. A master storyteller." Library Journal
"It's Jones's age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that's sufficiently vast to contain multitudes." --Book World
"Jones has a rich, Southern voice, disarmingly smooth, with a kick like moonshine and as satisfying as an afterglow. A master storyteller."
"[Jones] is brilliant, wise, deeply sane, incredibly knowledgeable about the craft, tender, moving, honest, and -- pure. I love reading him. He gives me hope for poetry." --Gerald Stern
"?ones?is brilliant, wise, deeply sane, incredibly knowledgeable about the craft, tender, moving, honest, and -- pure. I love reading him. He gives me hope for poetry." --Gerald Stern
"[Jones's Salvation Blues] must surely place him in the pantheon of great living American poets."
"?ones's Salvation Blues?must surely place him in the pantheon of great living American poets."
"Reading his poems [is] a continually liberating experience. This is work that really matters." --Carl Dennis
"Reading his poems ?s?a continually liberating experience. This is work that really matters." --Carl Dennis
Rodney Jones' "Salvation Blues"...must surely place hime in the pantheon of great living American poets."
"While this ample book will serve many readers as an introduction to Jones's work, it also contains surprises for his fans: 24 new poems (some of his best yet)."

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저자(글) Jones, Rodney

RODNEY JONES is the author of eleven books of poems. His many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Harper Lee Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and he has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches in the low-residency MFA creative writing program at Warren Wilson College and lives in New Orleans and Southern Illinois.

목차

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  From The Unborn (1985)
  Remembering Fire 3
  Sweep 4
  For Those Who Miss the Important Parts 6
  I Find Joy in the Cemetery Trees 8
  Thoreau 10
  The First Birth 12
  A History of Speech 14
  The Laundromat at the Bay Station 16
  The Mosquito 19
  For the Eating of Swine 21
  Two Girls at the Hartselle, Alabama, Municipal Swimming Pool 23
  Decadence 24
  From Transparent Gestures (1989)
  Transparent Gestures 33
  One of the Citizens 35
  The Sadness of Early Afternoons 37
  On the Bearing of Waitresses 40
  The Kitchen Gods 42
  Mule 44
  The Foolishness 47
  Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr, 49
  Pussy 51
  Every Day There Are New Memos 53
  Carpe Diem 55
  A Blasphemy 57
  Pastoral for Derrida 59
  Life of Sundays 61
  From Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (1993)
  The Work of Poets 65
  The Bridge 67
  Grand Projection 69
  Romance of the Poor 72
  Thirty-one Flavors of Houses 75
  At the Miracle Mall 76
  Contempt 79
  Shame the Monsters 84
  At Summerford's Rest Home 86
  Moment of Whitman 88
  The Privilege 90
  Apocalyptic Narrative 92
  From Things That Happen Once (1996)
  TV 101
  Mortal Sorrows 103
  Beautiful Child 105
  Nell 107
  Risks 109
  First Fraudulent Muse 111
  In the Spirit of Limuel Hardin 113
  The End of Communism 116
  A Ride with the Commander 119
  On Pickiness 121
  Ground Sense 123
  Sex 125
  Dirty Blues 128
  Don't Worry 130
  Lurleen 133
  From Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999)
  Down Time 139
  Doing Laundry 140
  The Poetry Reading 142
  Refusing to Baptize a Son 144
  Not See Again 145
  Plea for Forgiveness 148
  The Limousine Bringing Isaac Bashevis Singer to Carbondale 150
  Sacrament for My Penis 153
  The Obsolescence of Thou 154
  Elegy for the Southern Drawl 155
  The Assault on the Fields 165
  The Sorrow Pageant 168
  Blessed Assurance 171
  From Kingdom of the Instant (2002)
  A Whisper Fight at the Peck Funeral Home 177
  Small Lower-Middle-Class White Southern Male 186
  A Defense of Poetry 188
  Bufus 190
  Family Mattress 192
  Channel 193
  Homage to Mississippi John Hurt 194
  The Masters 197
  Moses 199
  Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical 201
  New Poems (2005)
  Salvation Blues 209
  The Attitude 210
  Elves 212
  The Boomers Take the Field 214
  Sovereign Joy 216
  The United States 217
  My Monastery 220
  Winton and Mildred 222
  Avuncular 224
  The State-Line Stripper 225
  The Low-Down-Sorry Right-Wing Blues 226
  Fears 228
  Common-Law Kundalini 229
  Sitting with Others 231
  Thanksgiving in the Late Fifties 232
  On Torture 233
  Courtship 234
  The Language of Love 235
  Postmodern Christians 236
  My Father's Big Idea 237
  In High School 239
  Vision of the End of the World in the Valdosta Holiday Inn 241
  Olympiad 243
  Rain on Tin 244
  Acknowledgments 246

기본정보

ISBN	9780618872268 ( 0618872264 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 04월 05일
쪽수	256쪽
크기	150 * 229 * 20 mm / 363 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어