Imaginary Logic - Poems

“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

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Jones
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2018
• EAN: 9780547840208
• ISBN: 978-0-547-84020-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Caribbean islands, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, POETRY: American / Asian American, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Relating to African American / Black American people, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Religious