An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Rodney Jones, Southern Illinois University
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Published Work in Print:
Jones, Rodney. Apocalyptic Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
———. Elegy for the Southern Drawl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
———. Kingdom of the Instant: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
———. Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985–2005. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
———. The Story They Told Us of Light. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
———. Things That Happen Once. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
———. Transparent Gestures . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
———. The Unborn. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1985.
Links and Online Publications:
The Atlantic. "Cathedral." (Sept. 2008).
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809/poem-cathedral
Blackbird, an online journal of arts and literature
Blackbird 4.1 (Spring 2005): Three poems: "The Boomers Take the Field," "Common-Law Kundalini," "The State Line Stripper".
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/poetry/jones_r/index.htm
Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006): "A Conversation with Rodney Jones" (two-part audio interview with transcript).
The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. Video, audio and text of "The United States."
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=5#excerpt
The Poetry Foundation
Eleven archived poems ("Dangers," "First Coca-Cola, "Life of Sundays," "Mortal Sorrows, On Pickiness," "Rain on Tin," "Sitting with Others," "Skink," "the Mosquito," "The Package," "The Troubles the Women Start Are Men"); podcast, "Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets;" article by Rodney Jones, "On Robert Hass's 'Faint Music'."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3542
StorySouth
StorySouth (Fall 2006): Five poems: "The Work of Poets," "On the Bearing of Waitresses," "The Bridge," "Ground Sense," "A Defense of Poetry"; "'The Structure of Opposition': The Poetry of Rodney Jones": An Interview with Rodney Jones by Patrick Phillips and Billy Reynolds.
Published Work in Print:
Jones, Rodney. Apocalyptic Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
———. Elegy for the Southern Drawl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
———. Kingdom of the Instant: Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
———. Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985–2005. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
———. The Story They Told Us of Light. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
———. Things That Happen Once. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
———. Transparent Gestures . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
———. The Unborn. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1985.
Links and Online Publications:
The Atlantic. "Cathedral." (Sept. 2008).
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809/poem-cathedral
Blackbird, an online journal of arts and literature
Blackbird 4.1 (Spring 2005): Three poems: "The Boomers Take the Field," "Common-Law Kundalini," "The State Line Stripper".
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/poetry/jones_r/index.htm
Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006): "A Conversation with Rodney Jones" (two-part audio interview with transcript).
The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. Video, audio and text of "The United States."
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2007.php?t=5#excerpt
The Poetry Foundation
Eleven archived poems ("Dangers," "First Coca-Cola, "Life of Sundays," "Mortal Sorrows, On Pickiness," "Rain on Tin," "Sitting with Others," "Skink," "the Mosquito," "The Package," "The Troubles the Women Start Are Men"); podcast, "Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets;" article by Rodney Jones, "On Robert Hass's 'Faint Music'."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3542
StorySouth
StorySouth (Fall 2006): Five poems: "The Work of Poets," "On the Bearing of Waitresses," "The Bridge," "Ground Sense," "A Defense of Poetry"; "'The Structure of Opposition': The Poetry of Rodney Jones": An Interview with Rodney Jones by Patrick Phillips and Billy Reynolds.
"An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim" is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University’s Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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