Gorgeous Mourning

Poetry. "GORGEOUS MORNING is an ingenious book-length prose poem sequence with one-word titles such as 'Attend,' 'Dread,' and 'Glean.' Each poem gathers a constellation of sentences phonetically or thematically suggested by that word. The method is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's 'recreation of the word' in 'Tender Buttons,' but with a richness of allusion that gives us back the world with restored freshness and attention. Alice Jones reminds us that poetry is a precise means of uncertainty, through which we renew experience without the willful attempt to clarify it. The playfulness and 'give' of the work is a great pleasure" -Paul Hoover.