Things That Happen Once: New Poems
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Books › Poetry › American › General
ISBN: 0395856019 / Publisher: Mariner Books, April 1997
Poems deal with the power of childhood, friendship, men and women, animals, myth, and first experiences
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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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