Transparent Gestures

On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Jones
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.1989
• EAN: 9780395510636
• ISBN: 978-0-395-51063-6
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Places, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Nature, POETRY: Subjects & Themes / Family, american;america;poetry;nonfiction;1988;1989;1990, nonfiction;american;american poetry;poetry