Last Seen(1st Edition) (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry) by JacquelineJonesLamon Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-28294-3, ISBN: 0-299-28294-5
"Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America. This thought-provoking collection of persona poems looks at absence from the standpoint of the witnesses surrounding the void and offers an intimate depiction of those impossible moments of aftermath lived by those w ..."
What Water Knows Poems (Paperback) by JacquelineJonesLamon Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2021 by Northwestern University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4384-5, ISBN: 0-8101-4384-4
"Prepare to experience what happens when greed gets in the way of reason. What Water Knows is a canonical poetic achievement that will remind us of what it means to be human in a world that often forgets."
"From fabulous new author Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a sexy page-turner that follows the lives of two young, black professionals as they navigate career and romance, ambition and heartbreak. Two paths that meet by serendipity.Nia Benson, a college graduate who dreams someday of running her own public relations firm, believes the world is her oyster. But Nia runs up against the harsh realities of corporate life and office politics when she i ..."
Gravity U.S.A. Poems by JacquelineJonesLamon Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 2006 by Quercus Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9743070-2-2, ISBN: 0-9743070-2-5
"Greetings to a bright new voice." Jacqueline Jones LaMon is currently Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University, New York. GRAVITY, U.S.A. is the winner of the Quercus Review Poetry Series, Annual Book Award, 2005."
Gravity, U.S.A. by JacquelineJonesLamon Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2013 by Quercus Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-615-83710-9, ISBN: 0-615-83710-7
""With her debut, Jacqueline Jones LaMon graces us with a collection both introspective and out of body, her poems taking on the weight of the everyday world, and the extraordinary within it. GRAVITY, USA is not just a book filled with a subtle, sorrowful, and ultimately brazen power, but a place where you'll want to visit, and stay." —Kevin Young "In lively, resonant language, [the poems of GRAVITY, USA] show again and again the necess ..."
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."
"For recommendations, advice, and literary reflection during the five years of
gestation, I especially thank A. Van Jordan, Judith Baumel, Martha Collins, Stacy
Leigh, Kermit Frazier, Linda Susan Jackson, Dr. nzadi Keita, Dr. Duriel harris,
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What Water Knows Poems by JacquelineJonesLamon 88 Pages, Published 2021 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4385-2, ISBN: 0-8101-4385-2
"... Nzadi Keita, Stacy Leigh, Norm Lewis, Iris Mahan, Charlene Mayers, Abigail McGrath, Lynne and Leigh McQueen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Christine M. Riordan, Anika Noni Rose, Nicole Sealey, Carl Skinner, Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Marc ..."