Background
Jones, Rodney G. was born on February 11, 1950 in Hartselle, Alabama, United States. Son of Edward Lavon and Wilda Marjorie (Owen) Jones.
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Going Ahead, Looking Back
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Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems
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Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems offers a poignant look at the American landscape: factories, restaurants, farms, empty fallout shelters, glorified malls, and transfigured filling stations scattered across the land. This collection oscillates from the personal to the political, from the religious to the secular, never losing sight of the possibility of joy.
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Transparent Gestures
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Story They Told Us of Light
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Jones has a lyrical mind and meanders through memory and imagination in his poems, fusing them and making them work to surprise the reader with intriguing and challenging images. The collection builds beautifully, each section nurturing the others, and all of it displays Jones’s fine talent—keenly intelligent, human, and compassionate. His quick, splendid sense of humor surprises the reader, playing one image off another that is seemingly unrelated to the first, yet achieving a sense of rightness in poem after poem.
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Rodney G. Jones
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Rodney G. Jones, American Poet, English educator. Recipient General Electric/Coordinating Council Literature Magazines award General Electric Council, 1986, prize for excellence in poetry Kenyon Review, 1989, Jean Stein award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1989; Guggenheim fellow, 1985, National Education Association fellowship
ALSO (Mailing)
Rodney G. Jones
So Ill U
Dept English
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503 M C.
Education
Bachelor, University Alabama, 1971. Master of Fine Arts, University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1973.
Career
Copywriter, Frost & Frost Inc., Gadsden, Alabama, 1973-1974; poet-in-residence, Poetry-in-the-Schools Programs, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, 1974-1976; poet-in-residence, Knoxville (Tennessee) City Schools, 1977-1978; instructor, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, 1978-1984; professor, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, since 1984.
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Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems
( Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems offers a poignant...)
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Story They Told Us of Light
( Jones has a lyrical mind and meanders through memory an...)
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The Unborn: Poems
(Book by Jones, Rodney)
- Transparent Gestures, Poems
- Going Ahead, Looking Back
- Transparent Gestures
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Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems
Connections
Married Virginia Kremza, 1973 (divorced 1980). 1 child, Alexis Daisy. Married Gloria Mercedes Nixon, June 21, 1981.
1 child, Samuel Javier.
Education
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1971
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1973
Career
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1973 - 1974
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1974 - 1976
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1977 - 1978
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1978 - 1984
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1984
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Recipient General Electric/Coordinating Council Literature Magazines award General Electric Council, 1986, prize for excellence in poetry Kenyon Review, 1989, Jean Stein award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1989. Guggenheim fellow, 1985, National Education Association fellowship ALSO (Mailing) Rodney G. Jones So Ill U Dept English Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503 M C.Recipient General Electric/Coordinating Council Literature Magazines award General Electric Council, 1986, prize for excellence in poetry Kenyon Review, 1989, Jean Stein award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1989. Guggenheim fellow, 1985, National Education Association fellowship ALSO (Mailing) Rodney G. Jones So Ill U Dept English Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503 M C.