{"product_id":"imaginary-logic-rodney-jones-9780547840208","title":"Imaginary Logic: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It's Jones's age-defying distinction to have mobilized a moral intelligence that's sufficiently vast to contain multitudes.\"--\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eImaginary Logic\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Jones's distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. \"The Art of Heaven\" opens with a parody of Dante and a down-home, twisted humor that Jones's readers have come to rely on: \"In the middle of my life I came to a dark wood, \/ the smell of barbecue, kids running in the yards. \/ Not deep depression. This nice hell of suburbs. \/ Speed bumps. The way things aren't quite paradise.\" \u003cbr\u003e Jones, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of America's \"best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets\" (\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cem\u003e Imaginary Logic\u003c\/em\u003e is the most eloquent expression yet of his rigorous mind, scrupulous eye, and capacious heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Jones'] poems are a work of hands, and hands-on. His rich lyric sentences register experience at the full and thus at its high moment of complexity. Like most of the important poets, he's a lapsed pastoralist attempting to restore--no, save--the fallen.\"--Stanley Plumly \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodney Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0547840209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780547840208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Rodney Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920179724543,"sku":"9780547840208","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_78557208-9158-4ea1-b5ee-300bc4a1c8df.jpg?v=1680813976","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imaginary-logic-rodney-jones-9780547840208","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}