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Imaginary Logic: Poems
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ISBN10: 0547840209
ISBN13: 9780547840208
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780547840208
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It's Jones's age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that's sufficiently vast to contain multitudes.--Washington Post Book World
Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones's distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. The Art of Heaven opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones's readers have come to rely on: In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, / the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards. / Not deep depression. This nice hell of suburbs. / Speed bumps. The way things aren't quite paradise. Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of America's best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets (Poetry). Imaginary Logic is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind, scrupulous eye, and capacious heart. [Jones'] poems are a work of hands, and hands-on. His rich lyric sentences register experience at the full and thus at its high moment of complexity. Like most of the important poets, he's a lapsed pastoralist attempting to restore--no, save--the fallen.--Stanley Plumly
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