Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's promotional material laid in.

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Many of the poems in Kingdom of the Instant attend to a particular moment — to the individual existing in one place at the time life is lived. Some of them, like “Keeping Time,” are urgent, even ominous (“To be there with it, tock to its tick, mud / to its chink”). In others, the approach to the instant is dilatory, relaxed, as in one of the long poems, “Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical” (“Let loose. Lists into ashes. Tasks into stones”). The poet also addresses natural history and the environment; religiosity, the history and encumbrances of class, regionalism, and the American South; and the act of making poetry. There are homages to a number of masters, ranging from Wallace Stevens to Mississippi John Hurt, but concrete references give way to the fleeting impression, the given moment, the kingdom of the instant that Rodney Jones so strongly evokes. He is, line by line, sound by sound, at the top of his form.

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 89537
Title: Kingdom of the Instant
Author: JONES, Rodney
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0618224173
ISBN 13: 9780618224173
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: Poetry, SouthernAuthor/Interest, AdvanceCopy
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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