內(nèi)容簡介:PRAISE FOR RODNEY JONES “At a time when American poets increasingly seem divided into hostile camps — or simmering coteries — it’s Jones’s age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that's sufficiently vast to contain multitudes.” — Washington Post Book World “Jones is a rowdy sort of poet who packs his language with noise. His poems balance on the edge of cacophony, then slip back into a clarity that is sometimes astonishing. The robust energy of the poems, the leaping imagination, the mixture of seriousness and play, the constant teasing of chaos, the balancing at the brink of disintegration and disaster, the force with which the poems snatch the reader's attention — these are rare qualities.” — New York Times Book Review “What moves me in Rodney Jones’s poetry is the energy of its joy and the embrace of its language. He’s been too easily regionalized as a rhetorical southerner when his real appeal is his electric storytelling skill and his determined hold on form. His poems are a work of hands, and hands on. His rich lyric sentences register experience at the full and thus at its high moment of complexity. Like most of the important poets, he’s a lapsed pastoralist attempting to restore — no, save — the fallen.” — Stanley Plumly
作者簡介:Rodney Jones, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. Salvation Blues received the 2006 Kingsley Tufts Award.