Are We There Yet?

by Jones, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781933896052
• ISBN10: 1933896051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Texas Review Pr
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Summary

"Physically grounded in the American South and Southwest, the poems in Are We There Yet? chart the poet's psychic and spiritual journey through the regions of youth and maturity, faith and uncertainty, innocence and experience, and past and present, reflecting the contrarieties of time and its incompleteness. These lyrics depict an unfolding emotional dialectic - a struggle, where moments and events are held up and analyzed for clues about how we stand firm amid the velocity of circumstance and experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Roger Jones teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Texas State University.

Table of Contents

I
Arrivals	p. 1
First Grade	p. 3
Clover	p. 4
Circle of Watermelon	p. 5
Enlistment	p. 6
Tidal	p. 7
Practice	p. 8
My Grandmother Visits	p. 9
Crossing the Country on Amtrak	p. 10
Night on the Buffalo	p. 11
Missing Chapters	p. 12
Farm Club	p. 13
Flounder Fishing Near the Refineries	p. 14
This Morning She Talked in Her Sleep	p. 15
Making Flower Pots	p. 16
Southern Male Novelist	p. 17
Cucumbers	p. 18
Summer Run in the Country	p. 19
Kite Festival	p. 20
Dealey Plaza	p. 21
Fingerprints	p. 22
Poison	p. 23
II
The Umbilical	p. 27
Contrary	p. 29
Eclipse	p. 30
A Door Ajar	p. 31
Small Lines	p. 32
The Family Creche	p. 33
Preserves	p. 34
Leap Faith	p. 35
Triple A	p. 36
The Boy in the Dark	p. 37
Gossip	p. 38
Afternoons at the Country Club	p. 39
Losing My Wallet	p. 40
Family Problems	p. 41
Sulphur River	p. 42
Late September Moon	p. 43
The Last Dog	p. 44
The Wheel	p. 45
Late Night Radio	p. 46
Fishing on Toledo Bend	p. 47
Panhandle	p. 48
Somewhere in America	p. 49
Reading a Dream	p. 50
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