Exulting in the speech of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's new poems combine satire and ode, formal lament and ribald joke. James Dickey praised this poet's early work as "one of our most poignant and inescapable renditions of the agony at the historical razor's edge." Now, in his sixth book, Jones extends his emotional and stylistic range.3/5(1). · Elegy For The Southern Drawl Jacki speaks to poet Rodney Jones, who reads an excerpt from his poem "Elegy for the Southern Drawl". Jones says that people who lose their accents are in danger of. This is Elegy for the Southern Drawl, poems by Rodney Jones. This is the First Mariner paperback printing. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a a Chicago Tribune Editors Choice. The following is excerpted from the blurb on the back cover: Exulting in the speech of his native.
Rodney Jones's books of poetry include Salvation Blues: Poems, , which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; Elegy for the Southern Drawl (), a Pulitzer finalist; Things That Happen Once (), a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist; and Transparent Gestures (), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Rodney Jones was born on Febru, in Hartselle, Alabama. His books of poetry include Village Prodigies (Mariner Books, ); Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and Elegy for the Southern. Rodney Jones was born in in rural Alabama. He has described his childhood and youth as "very much like being a part of another age. Our community still did not have electricity until I was 5 or 6 years old." His poetry frequently celebrates the relationships and events of the small, agrarian community he was born into, as well as preserves the kinds of vernacular speech he grew up.
Elegy for the southern drawl. [Rodney Jones] -- Celebrating the essence of life in the South, a collection of poems chronicles the life cycle of a young Southern white male, from high school football to losing his virginity, from ignorant youth to. Jones’s other critically acclaimed collections include Transparent Gestures () which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (), Elegy for the Southern Drawl () and his most recent book, Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems (). Jones has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, while Elegy for the Southern Drawl was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Elegy For The Southern Drawl Jacki speaks to poet Rodney Jones, who reads an excerpt from his poem "Elegy for the Southern Drawl". Jones says that people who lose their accents are in danger of.
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