Things That Happen Once: New Poems - Paperback

by Rodney Jones (Author)

Things That Happen Once, Jones's fifth volume, may well be his finest yet, combining currents of southern evangelism, contemporary sophistication, and passionate moral engagement. Its forty-one poems display an exciting power of language and open up new visions of inheritance and parenthood, sexuality and change. In doing so, these poems release energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.

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Rodney Jones writes: 'These poem issue from the touchstones of my life: the powers of childhood, the stoical relationships of men, familial and sexual communion with women, the kindred lives of animals, the creation and embodiment of myth- and finally, the wish to evoke the sources of present attitudes and behaviors...'