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Are We There Yet?
Roger D. Jones
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Description for Are We There Yet?
Paperback. Physically grounded in the American South and Southwest, the poems in this title chart the poet's psychic and spiritual journey through the regions of youth and maturity, faith and uncertainty, innocence and experience, and past and present, reflecting the contrarieties of time and its incompleteness. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 95.
Physically grounded in the American South and Southwest, the poems in ""Are We There Yet?"" chart the poet's psychic and spiritual journey through the regions of youth and maturity, faith and uncertainty, innocence and experience, and past and present, reflecting the contrarieties of time and its incompleteness. These lyrics depict an unfolding emotional dialectica - a struggle, where moments and events are held up and analyzed for clues about how we stand firm amid the velocity of circumstance and experience.From ""Contrary"" - She darkened where she went, and now her blood, too, storms my veins, and I see how I've ... Read more
Physically grounded in the American South and Southwest, the poems in ""Are We There Yet?"" chart the poet's psychic and spiritual journey through the regions of youth and maturity, faith and uncertainty, innocence and experience, and past and present, reflecting the contrarieties of time and its incompleteness. These lyrics depict an unfolding emotional dialectica - a struggle, where moments and events are held up and analyzed for clues about how we stand firm amid the velocity of circumstance and experience.From ""Contrary"" - She darkened where she went, and now her blood, too, storms my veins, and I see how I've ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Huntsville, United States
ISBN
9781933896052
SKU
V9781933896052
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99-3
About Roger D. Jones
ROGER JONES teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Texas State University. He is author of two previous collections, and his work has appeared regularly over the past thirty years in various journals, including Iowa Review, Southern Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Texas Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Modern Haiku, and many others. He is married, with two children, and lives ... Read more
Reviews for Are We There Yet?
Roger Jones maps his journey toward home - 'someone coming in, someone leaving' - a palimpsest of plenitude, long run down a blacktop road, wife keeping the pace, son and daughter easing ahead, father and mother, grandparents dropping behind, waving their future on, raised hands conferring a blessing, this family held by a faith, for now, sufficient. - Robert A. ... Read more