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    Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005
    Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005
    Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005
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    Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005

    By Rodney Jones

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    Rodney Jones has been called "the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry" (Southern Review) and one of the nation's "best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets" (Poetry). Salvation Blues traces the career of this popular narrative poet through one hundred choice poems, including twenty-four bold new pieces.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 5, 2007
    ISBN9780547981673
    Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005
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    Rodney Jones

    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.

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