Village Prodigies imagines the town of Cold Springs, Alabama, from to and unfurls its narrative reach as six boys—prodigies and swains—grow up and leave the familiarity of home and the rural South. Yet all prodigies, all memories, all stories inevitably loop back. · “Village Prodigies uses a modest American town and its citizens to ponder an immodest array of the world's most baffling imponderables. Beginning with the fallibility of one's own internal compass–the mind–and extending to every further layer of reliable knowns (family, circle of friends, town, country, world), Jones' characters have been thrown a gauntlet of conflicts (personal, local, national).Pages: “Village Prodigies uses a modest American town and its citizens to ponder an immodest array of the world's most baffling imponderables. Beginning with the fallibility of one's own internal compass–the mind–and extending to every further layer of reliable knowns (family, circle of friends, town, country, world), Jones' characters have been thrown a gauntlet of conflicts (personal, local, national)/5(15).
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. Rodney Jones. Rodney Jones' books include Village Prodigies; Imaginary Logic; 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. Village Prodigies Rodney Jones. Village Prodigies imagines the town of Cold Springs, Alabama, from to and unfurls its narrative reach as six boys—prodigies and swains—grow up and leave the familiarity of home and the rural South.
Rodney Jones. Rodney Jones' books include Village Prodigies; Imaginary Logic; 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. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Jean Stein Award of the American. Rodney Jones’s new novel in verse, Village Prodigies, roves the lives of six childhood friends from a small Southern town. Though Jones follows each of them through decades of losses and pleasures, he always returns to one central figure, Seth Portis, who makes a provoking, mysterious protagonist. The lives of Portis and his childhood cohort. –. Rodney Jones was born on Febru, in Hartselle, Alabama. He received a BA from the University of Alabama in and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 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; Elegy for the Southern Drawl (Houghton.
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