Rodney Jones
Rodney Jones teaches in the Warren Wilson Low Residency MFA Program and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His books include Transparent Gestures, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Salvation Blues, which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. The poems in this issue are from Village Prodigies, a new collection coming from Houghton-Mifflin in the spring of 2017.
Reading List
Five Fables from VILLAGE PRODIGIES
HAWKS FLEDGING How quickly they come to their full bodies and never that protean instant of metamorphoses, only one day both were inexplicably large with the downy, white, otherworldly mien of the working children of the Depression Thomas Wolfe described …
In Media Res
Of the one instant we might die in, if we consider it, it has not yet happened or it is too late, and what seems to remain of it after an hour misses the point, and twenty years after it …