{"id":5670,"date":"2024-07-08T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:15:11","slug":"something-necessary-coming-fall-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/something-necessary-coming-fall-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Necessary is Here &#8211; Fall 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/FINALCover4.pdf\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/redhawkpublications.com\/\">Redhawk Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redhawkpublications.com\/Something-Necessary-Poems-p683522697\">BUY Something Necessary HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read Paul Jones is to behold how there is always \u201cstill some place deeper, \/ some place both dark and alive.\u201d In formally versatile, emotionally visceral poems, he immerses us in the body and spirit of the timeless everyday: tomato sandwiches, watermelons, vape shops, graveyards, basketball, grief, memory, friendship, marriage, poverty, flying kites, and Dolly Parton. Throughout it all, we have the natural world: the animal kingdom, the seas, the air, and the ground right in front of us. <\/p>\n<p>In that emphasis on the everyday, his poetry practices the hope that we might at last \u201cbe free from the nation of strangers.\u201d His poems do \u201cthe work of roots, \/ how each strand reaches for its neighbor.\u201d That\u2019s the work we should do too, and we\u2019ve got Paul Jones to point the way, take our hand, and walk with, stepping forward together.<br \/>\n\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/foglejunk.squarespace.com\/\">Andy Fogle,<\/a> author of <a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreetragbookstore.com\/product\/mother-countries-andy-fogle\/\">Mother Countries<\/a> and poetry editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salvationsouth.com\/\">Salvation South<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nPaul Jones\u2019 new collection, Something Necessary, transports us to the ordinary, where it aims and presses down like a Fresnel lens to redirect the light, imbued with a beauty that was always thought too small to see, to sailors such as us as we head for port at night. What results in this alphabetically arranged collection is the sweep of days past, of the stories we tell ourselves, how maturity looks back on youth, and how the need for empowering narrative frames memory.  The result is a vividly detailed and sweeping collection, at once relatable and wonderfully accessible.  Clive James wrote that it is so difficult for a poet to achieve clarity that if he can manage it, it should be his duty never to be any other way.  In Something Necessary, Paul Jones summons that lucidity and writes with grace in his bones.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/blacklawrencepress.com\/authors\/david-rigsbee\/\">David Rigsbee,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklawrencepress.com\/books\/watchman-in-the-knife-factory-new-and-selected-poems\/\"><i>Watchman in the Knife Factory, New and Selected Poems<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Redhawk Publications BUY Something Necessary HERE! To read Paul Jones is to behold how there is always \u201cstill some place deeper, \/ some place both dark and alive.\u201d In formally versatile, emotionally visceral poems, he immerses us in the body and spirit of the timeless everyday: tomato sandwiches, watermelons, vape shops, graveyards, basketball, grief, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}