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<p><p>rodney Jones Has Been Called The Supreme Example Of The Southern Human Person Speaking In American Poetry (southern Review) And One Of The Nation's Best, Most Generous, And Most Brilliantly Readable Poets (poetry). Salvation Blues Traces The Career Of This Popular Narrative Poet Through One Hundred Choice Poems, Including Twenty-four Bold New Pieces.<p></p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>jones, Who Grew Up In Rural Alabama, And Whose Mother And Grandparents (the Poems Tell Us) Were Farm Workers, Pursues Gritty Anecdotes That Place Him Within A Southern Narrative Tradition From Robert Penn Warren To Yusef Komunyakaa And Dave Smith. In This Culling From Six Previous Volumes And From New Work, Jones (elegy For The Southern Drawl) Portrays Cows Named For Friends/ And Fated For Slaughterhouses; The Tongue-tied, The Murderous, The Illiterate/ And The Alcoholic; Waitresses In The Benzedrine Light Of Waffle Houses; A Semi Loaded With Bridge Girders; Mules, Pigs, And Hard Physical Labor; Fingers Cracked By Frost/ And Lacerated By Johnson Grass. As Much As He Chronicles Hard Lives, Jones (who Teaches At Southern Illinois University In Carbondale) Shows An Unusual Intellectual Reach And A

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Author

Jones, Rodney

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618624300

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14