Salvation Blues（ISBN=9780618872268）

Rodney Jones has long been praised for his masterly storytelling and the bold southern voice he brings to his poetry. Salvation Blues celebrates the range and evolution of his work over a twenty-year period with one hundred selected poems -- including twenty-four bold pieces published only in this collection.

RODNEY JONES, born in Alabama, is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Salvation Blues is his eighth book of poetry. Among his many honors, Jones was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, and a Harper Lee Award.

From The Unborn (1985)
From Transparent Gestures (1989)
From Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (1993)
From Tings That Happen Once (1996)
From Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999)
From Kingdom of the Instant (2002)
New Poems (2005)
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