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Book SynopsisFocuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story.
Trade ReviewIf there is a way to hold on, to recover some part of what's lost, and grasp--for even a fleeting moment--the ineffable, this marvelous book is it." - Natasha Trethewey
"Rodney Jones is perhaps the supreme example we have of the southern human person speaking in American poetry." - Kate Daniels
"Jones has found an inevitable, pared-down, utterly original way of telling his story in the context of the culture he comes from. This is a lovely book, for its humor as well as its compassion." - Alan Williamson
"No one can match Jones for the range of unflinching sensibility or the miraculous capacity to wrench blessing out of dailiness and degradation and active harm." - Linda Gregerson
"Jones is a trustworthy storyteller precisely because he can't help but stay emotionally attached to what he often intellectually disbelieves.
Alabama is a great book by a great poet." - Alan Shapiro
