When the only light is fire /

In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Saeed (Author)
Other Authors:	Benbow, Christopher (photographer (expression))
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Alexander, Arkansas : Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011.
Edition:	First Sibling Rivalry Press edition.
Subjects:	African American gays > Southern States > Poetry. Rural gay men > Southern States > Poetry. Southern States > Poetry. African American men > Violence against > Poetry. Homosexuels noirs américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Poésie. Homosexuels masculins en milieu rural > États-Unis (Sud) > Poésie. États-Unis (Sud) > Poésie. Homosexualité > États-Unis (Sud) > Poésie. Hommes noirs américains > Violence envers > Poésie. African Americans. Gay poets. Lyrik. Amerikanisches Englisch. poetry. Gay poetry. Poésie.

Table of Contents:

Kudzu
Terrible boy
Boy in stolen evening gown
Boy at edge of woods
Isaac, after Mount Moriah
Nocturne
The blue dress in Mother's closet
Boy at threshold
Daedalus, after Icarus
After the first shot
Jasper, 1998 : I
Jasper, 1998 : II
Jasper, 1998 : III
Coyote cry
Body & Kentucky bourbon
In Nashville
Meridian
The fabulist
Blue prelude
Sleeping arrangement
Prelude to bruise
Mississippi drowning
Room 31
Cruel body
He thinks he can leave me
Eclipse of my third life.