Apropos of nothing / Richard Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Richard, 1953-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

63 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, 2006.

Summary:

Throughout his career, Richard Jones has written from a luminous interiority, in deceptively simple, elegant language. His complex and intimate poems are spare, intentional models of clarity and restraint. Yet the formal quietness and the clear style belie neither the poetry's soulfulness nor the poet's intelligence; rather, such lucidity attains a kind of radiance.

Apropos of Nothing, Jones's sixth book of poems, is "about nothing," and yet it evokes the essential suffering, bliss, and awakening of the attentive life. These well-reasoned, wise poems are portraits of intellection that show us just how joyous and sustaining the music of the mind can be.

Contents:

Heft 3

The Messages 4

The First Noble Truth 6

Lorgnette 7

The Sparrow 9

The Lamps 10

I Like to Explore the Relationship between Myself and the Universe 12

Subwoofer 13

Tea Ceremony 14

The Other Side of the World 16

Immaculate 18

Infinity and God 19

Cherries in the Snow 20

The Spoon 21

The Day 22

Sky Funeral 24

The Lieutenant 25

The Field Trip 26

The Rat 27

The Balance 28

French Composition 29

Home 30

The Diner 31

The Eye 33

The Answer 34

The Foot 35

Plums 36

The Ruin 37

Help 38

Always 39

The Sacrifice 40

Blind Milton Dictating to His Daughters 41

The Great Sky 42

Freedom 43

The Caravan 45

Saved 50

Eternity or What

I The Rounds 51

II The Musician 53

III Night 54

IV Things Not Seen 56

V Little 58

Ars Poetica 59

Philosophy of Life 60

The Obstacle 61.

ISBN:

155659237X

OCLC:

62084246