Transparent Gestures

On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.

Rodney Jones' poems will capture you first by their humor and familiarity--on a second reading their deeper significance will begin to sink in. Their meaning is sparked in quick bites and tied together with a vital energy, creating scenes that are familiar, yet which always manage to invoke new shades of perception. Not content with a simply visual awareness, Jones takes the reader to a place where intuition can flourish. A ramble through this winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry is sure to provoke a second reading--silent or aloud.