On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as a brand-new world-class poet. This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.
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On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as a brand-new world-class poet. This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.
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Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. Trade paperback. Foxing to the top edge, sunning to the spine, and a stain on the rear wrapper, very good. Rodney Jones was born in northern Alabama, and is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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First edition softcover signed by Jones on title page. Silver "National Book Critics Circle Award Winner" sticker on front cover. Poems. 68 pages. 8vo. A flyer for a reading by Jones at Southern Illinois University on March 7 of unknown year is laid in. Fine condition.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Light foxing on page edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket with modest internal foxing. Laid into the book is the publisher's complimentary slip. Rodney Jones was born in northern Alabama, and is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Tiny stray ink mark on bottom edge (not a remainder mark) else fine in fine dust jacket. Publisher's complimentary copy, with a slip signed by publisher's representative Peter Davison laid in. *Transparent Gestures* was the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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