Imaginary Logic: Poems – Audacious Satirical Verse that Parodies Dante in the Modern American Suburb - Softcover

Jones, Rodney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547840209 ISBN 13: 9780547840208

Verlag: Ecco, 2018

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“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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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.

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• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0547840209
• ISBN 13: 9780547840208
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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