Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems 1985-2005
by Rodney Jones
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The selections trace the changing landscape of the rural South across six earlier books, moving from North Alabama cotton fields to the clanking machinery of poultry processing plants.
Jones anchors his verse in the daily labor of working people, observing roadside mechanics in Quonset huts and warehouse crews with unsparing precision. These pieces balance local speech and family grief against quiet humor, finding substance in ordinary encounters along southern highways.
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.
- Southern Literature: Explores rural tradition and disappearing agrarian ways, from mule teams grinding cane at a local sorghum mill to the quiet rituals of farm kitchens.
- Narrative Verse: Chronicles dramatic coming-of-age milestones, including a farm boy struggling to deliver a stuck calf while studying Copernicus.
- American Poetry: Examines cultural anxieties and regional identity, confronting Cold War fallout shelters and the fading Scotch-Irish brogues of Appalachian communities.
- Also by This Author: Imaginary Logic, Village Prodigies and Elegy for the Southern Drawl.
Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- Rodney Jones
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Apr 5, 2007
- ISBN-13
- 9780618872268
- ISBN-10
- 0618872264
- Pages
- 256
- Carton quantity
- 24 copies
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