Someone Going Home Late [Paperback]

Daryl Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1990

This poetry moves us by its simple strength and honesty, its clear-eyed vision of the world it describes. Daryl Jones could be speaking of his own poems when he says of beach agates: "no two alike; each one / particular and isolate, a picture of something / we imagine or remember—a bird in glass, a face, / a landscape from childhood—something / the mind turns over and over / then flings up, wet and shining." —Linda Pastan Daryl Jones grew up in Rockville, Maryland, and holds degrees in English from Michigan State University. He has taught creative writing and American literature at Michigan State University and Texas Tech University where he served as chair of the Department of English. Since 1986, he has been Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boise State University in Idaho. He is the author of The Dime Novel Western, a critical study of the popular Western novel, and numerous essays and reviews. His poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Orleans Review, Sewanee Review, TriQuarterly, and many other journals and anthologies. In 1985, he received a Creative Writing Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. An earlier version of Someone Going Home Late was a finalist in the 1987 National Poetry Series Open Competition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Absolute
Alloys
Apology
Beach Agates
Carp
A Casualty
Countenance
Day Off
Dolls
Emily Dickinson, Compsing
For W.l.h.
Freight: 1
Freight: 2
Freight: 3
Going On
Grabow At Work
Grabow Buys A New Suit
Grabow Goes Out Jogging With His Son
Grabow's Shaggy Dog Story
Grabow, Signing His Daughter's Report Card, Tells Her...
High Country Resolving To Travel Light
His Wife Down With The Flu, Grabow Goes To The Supermarket
The Horse
The Hotstrip
The Impulse
Joseph Of Nazareth, Bridegroom
Letter To The Editor
Maidenhair
One Reason We Call Ourselves Human
The Passing
Pedigrees
Photograph Of You In Late Evening
Riding It Out On Elk Mountain
Tarzan And The Elephant Burial Ground
Those Chesapeake Blues
The Tiger
Titanic
To A Fieldmouse
Triangulation
Un Bel Di
Waxing The Car In Late Fall
When You Know It Most
The White Tree
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press (January 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896722341
• ISBN-13: 978-0896722347
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,858,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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