The Beloved Community by Patricia Spears Jones

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The Beloved Community by Patricia Spears JonesIn her fifth poetry collection, The Beloved Community, Jackson Poetry Prizewinner Patricia Spears Jones interrogates the necessity and fragility of human bonds: sensual, familial, societal. From lyric to elegy, far reaching poems use wordplay and metaphor to create richly textured landscapes in search of community. As we traverse delis, laundromats, and the Brooklyn block where morning glories grow leaves plump as Italian cookies, poems about poverty,

of bonding

After a century dominated by free verse

arrange them in order—red

no cry or incantation a mimicry of another’s

In Jackie Craven’s gorgeous chapbook

these poems grapple with the fragility of our most formative connections—familial

George Oppen’s New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet’s books published in his lifetime (1908–84)

offering a new perspective on the iconic image of the cowboy and a deeper understanding of the complexities of human experience

they sing together of magic and pain

and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism

but also colors

haunting letters