Revelations: The Best Poetry of Jean Arthur Jones Over The Years

By Jean Arthur Jones and Bruce Whealton

This collection of 44 poems, by Jean Arthur Jones, is edited and published by Bruce Whealton. It reflects the editor's personal impression of what are the best poems of the many that have been written by Mr. Jean Arthur Jones. In writing this, it is implied that some of the poems chosen may reflect personal preferences and as such, these poems may represent the editor's favorite poems by Jean Jones. This is inevitable as it is difficult to find any objective sense of "the best" when describing poetry.

The poems represent a range of subjects and the order was chosen purposefully. However, the poems are not ordered in chronological order of when the poems were written or when they were published. One of the editor's favorite collections by Jean Jones is the "Angel of Death" poetry collection. That subject, as such, has received the most attention in this collection.

Some advice I received within the past couple years from Jean was about honesty, to be honest, always, in one's poetry. And to ask oneself, "does it read as honest?" I think that is a theme I've found in the poetry of Jean Jones. Sometimes you will read about his raw emotions and at other times you experience his feelings along with his observations about the world, life, death, God, faith, good and evil. Some poems draw upon some rather deep literary sources of inspiration. Other poems draw upon the every day experiences. I think all readers will find that his poems vary in complexity and thus defy simple characterization. I'm not aware of too many poets that similarly have such varied style in their writing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456612726

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Revelations: The Best Poetry of Jean Arthur Jones Over the Years

Original Poetry by Jean Arthur Jones

Edited and Published by Bruce Martin Whealton, Jr. of Future Wave Designs and Word Salad Poetry Magazine

Copyright © 2012 by Bruce Whealton and Word Salad Publications

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No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from Bruce Whealton or Jean Jones.

Table of Contents

Credits Page

What Others are Saying - Recommendations

Introduction

Honesty and the Poetry of Jean Jones

The Poems

For B.J., My Brother

In the Dream

Andrea

The Awakening

Mystery I

Mystery II

Mystery V

Major Arcana: The World

Eve

Birth of the Second

Beyond Good and Evil

Witness to the Processional

The Birds of Djakarta

Heading Back Down the Caspian

il miglio fabbro

What is it?

What is it? Part II

The Patron Saint of Dinasaurs

ONCE IN A LIFETIME

The Angel of Death

The Angel of Death Speaks

The Angel of Death Reads

The Angel of Death Listens to a Woman Pleading for Her Life

The Angel of Death Listens to a Prayer

The Angel of Death Meets the Press

The Angel of Death Meets the President of the US

The Writer Talks to the Angel of Death at a Full Moon

The Angel of Death Addresses the US at a Rally

For Beth (From the Book of Revelation)

The Angel of Death Explains Why She Invented Tarot

The Judgement

On the Eve of the 25th

Aftermath (After the Fall)

The Angel of Death Interviews the Author

The Angel of Death Speaks to Ishmael and Hagar

The Angel of Death Speaks to the cleric

The Angel of Death Makes a Visit

Thoughts On Death

Bonita Butler

Bear Kills Militants

Tent Cities

Out of the Storm

The Double in the Mirror

The Poet’s Death

About the Author

Jean Jones attended St. Andrews Presbyterian College and received his B.A. Degree in English from the

University of North Carolina Wilmington. He later went on to receive an M.F. A. degree in creative writing from Bowling Green State University. His aawards include the Bowling Green State University Irina

Ratushinskaya Freedom Book Award, the UNC Wilmington Creative Writing Program Book Award and the St. Andrews Fortner Writing and Community Award.

Besides being published by numerous literary magazines - including St. Andrews Review, Pembroke

Magazine and Kansas Quaterly - he has been published by the following online magazines: fuse magazine, tribalkitchen, Beautiful Nuance, Poetic Rainbows, Germination, King David, mockfear zine, The Quill & Ink, lunatic chameleon, magenworld, ZCPortal, Ravens Three, Epiphany, Mystic Prophit, The Horror Zine, and Decompositions.

In 2005, Jones became the winner of the Beautiful Nuance 2005 LIzaBeth poetry award. He was also recently published in recent issues of Gravity Hill and Cairn, both from St. Andrews Press, as well as The Simple Vows Anthology. His book of poems, Beyond Good & Evil, can be found on Amazon.com.

What Others are Saying - Reviews & Recommendations

Jean Jones tackles the spoken word the way a lab rat tackles a labyrinth -- not only does he abscond with the cheese, he makes an omelet and exits unscathed, leaving only the reader dumbfounded.

- MJD Algera -- Author of Like Indigenous Tiger & Outskirts; Co-editor & Co-publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine

Jean’s work has always dealt with the essential questions of life, and he’s not afraid of tackling the largest, most metaphysical ones of all: How can we put faith in a God Who seems indifferent to our suffering? If everything is transitory, what sort of legacy can we leave? If my enemies harm me, and I know I can get away with it, why shouldn’t I kill them? Jean’s