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Alabama

Poems

Rodney Jones
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Pages
92
Year
2023
Language
English
Publisher
LSU Press

About

Alabama focuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Labyrinth, meditation, fable, and peasant poem, formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story, all expressed with the intimate voice and vision of Rodney Jones.

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  • American
  • Poetry
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Reviews

"Rodney Jones is perhaps the supreme example we have of the southern human person speaking in American poetry."
Kate Daniels
"Jones has found an inevitable, pared-down, utterly original way of telling his story in the context of the culture he comes from. This is a lovely book, for its humor as well as its compassion."
Alan Williamson
"If there is a way to hold on, to recover some part of what's lost, and grasp-for even a fleeting moment-the ineffable, this marvelous book is it."
Natasha Trethewey

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