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Stone Works, 2002

Poems by Wayne Allen Jones
80 pp., 5 3/8" x 8 1/4",
perfect bound paperback
ISBN: 0-9722553-0-3

Few will argue that writing and reading poetry help people
discover beauty and truth in the world. These poems show
how people create that meaning, organize their lives, and
protect themselves from chaos – how they create a truth
that brings safety and beauty to their experience, and how,
when they fail to forge the link to Nature, the emptiness
and the pain are palpable.

The first section of the book deals with the process by which
meaning is created and assigned to or imposed on events
and things.

The second part shows how well such an approach can work.

The third paints the bleaker view when people lose their link
with Nature, when they cannot link with each other.

Author Profile

Born in Arizona, schooled near Detroit, Wayne Allen Jones
studied Biology and English at Harvard, preparing in earnest for
academic life with graduate studies at the University of Michigan
and Harvard. While in Ann Arbor, he won two Hopwood awards
for poems and essays. At Harvard he completed his Ph.D. with
a dissertation on Hawthorne in 1974.

After sticking to his nineteenth-century knitting at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, he taught poetry and gave several readings
at the University of Miami, including a pilot-bombardier duo with
James Dickey. Cut short by the tenure sickle, he moved back to
New England and got a day job writing for industry, winning two
writing awards and a spot in a user group hall of fame.

Throughout these business years, he continued to write poems,
often in airplanes, and recently turned to readings and publication
to try his work in the public furnace. He was selected as a juried poet
at the 2000, 2002, and 2003 Houston Poetry Fests, and at the Chicago
Poetry Fest 2003. He was also selected as the seventh and last Knight
of the Mystic Pen and Stone Works was reviewed on ChicagoPoetry.com.
Jones has read in Houston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Cambridge.

Contents - Click the Part to see titles

• Part I
  • Find the Blossom
  • The Crash
  • Color in Ruins
  • Nocturne
• Part II
  • The Ram and the Stone
  • Kokopele
  • Return to Turtle Island
  • Solo
  • Origin
  • Cage in Pursuit of Silence
  • Tea House Connection
  • Inside the Music
  • The Leap
  • Sanctuary on the Rideau
• Part III
  • Koyaasnisqatsi
  • In the Moment
  • Substitute Carrier
  • Opening Dance
  • Out of Season
  • Canyon Lake
  • Silverback
  • The Garden
  • The Boat Absolved
  • Facing the Wind
  • A Treed Lot
  • Flying the High Plains
  • Business in Boulder
  • At the Wood's Edge
  • Borealis
  • God in the Kitchen
  • Working the Margin
  • Scorpion Dance
  • Chimney Shadow
  • I see thee not, yet I touch thee still

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