Kingdom of the Instant
by JONES, Rodney
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618224173
- ISBN 13
- 9780618224173
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Synopsis
Many of the poems in Kingdom of the Instant attend to a particular moment to the individual existing in one place at the time life is lived. Some of them, like Keeping Time,” are urgent, even ominous (To be there with it, tock to its tick, mud / to its chink”). In others, the approach to the instant is dilatory, relaxed, as in one of the long poems, Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical” (Let loose. Lists into ashes. Tasks into stones”). The poet also addresses natural history and the environment; religiosity, the history and encumbrances of class, regionalism, and the American South; and the act of making poetry. There are homages to a number of masters, ranging from Wallace Stevens to Mississippi John Hurt, but concrete references give way to the fleeting impression, the given moment, the kingdom of the instant that Rodney Jones so strongly evokes. He is, line by line, sound by sound, at the top of his form.
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- Seller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 89537
- Title
- Kingdom of the Instant
- Author
- JONES, Rodney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618224173
- ISBN 13
- 9780618224173
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Poetry, SouthernAuthor/Interest, AdvanceCopy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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