Jones, Patricia Spears: A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems

A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Spears Jones (White Pine Press, paperback) Publication Date: November 10, 2015 Publisher Marketing:  "Vibrant with the intensity of blues singers."--Feminist Bookstore News "Patricia Spears Jones is cosmopolitan blues goddess alive on the wind stream of transnational homemade intimate gossip. Her poems are a highly effective antidote to living in a country where caring seems to have been placed on the Endangered Activities list."--David Rivard "Patricia Spears Jones reminds me of those wisecracking, foolproof women in the old films she so lovingly dissects--the ones whose deadsure, replenishing humor and never-fail good sense causes the audience to sit up and clap."--Cyrus Cassells "She has given us a world where music and brains are allowed to co-exist with instinct, where the lyric and the literal may dwell without eyeing the other with suspicion."--Cornelius Eady From "The Perfect Lipstick": It is why I appreciate my favorite shade