The Bandsaw Riots

Poetry. "This woman can flat-out write. Her work is so fresh and full of energy, the smoke's still rising from the page. She takes the grit of our daily lives and shapes it into wonder and surprise" - Jim Daniels. "I'm drawn to the voice of this butcher's daughter wrapping pork chops and steaks alongside the men, meditating on Yeats and Mother Jones; where the Alaskan winter stumbles onto the cutting floor in his white coat, hating his job. These are tough poems of toil and kin and Arlitia Jones is a poet. It's in her bones and blood. She takes the language of that place and uses it, like a tool, to chisel deep and lasting marks" - Dorianne Laux.