· Imaginary Logic is, to my taste, a peach. First of all, the writer is what he calls “a diction beagle,” ever so apt in his phrasing. Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. The Art of Heaven opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones s readers have /5(18). · A new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Award–winning poet Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones’s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. “The Art of Heaven” opens Category: Free.
Rodney Jones. A collection of 35 new poems that will reinforce Rodney Jones's reputation as one of America's most versatile narrative poets. show more. Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones's distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. Imaginary Logic. Rodney Jones. Paperback. List Price: *. Rodney Jones, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
Imaginary Logic Rodney Jones. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22 (96p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. KINGDOM OF THE INSTANT ;. Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones s distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. The Art of Heaven opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones s readers have come to rely on: In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, / the smell of barbecue. Rodney Jones. 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.
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