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This collection of 44 poems, by Jean Arthur Jones, is edited and published by Bruce Whealton. It reflects the editor's personal impression of what are the best poems of the many that have been written by Mr. Jean Arthur Jones. In writing this, it is implied that some of the poems chosen may reflect personal preferences and as such, these poems may represent the editor's favorite poems by Jean Jones. This is inevitable as it is difficult to find any objective sense of "the best" when describing poetry.

The poems represent a range of subjects and the order was chosen purposefully. However, the poems are not ordered in chronological order of when the poems were written or when they were published. One of the editor's favorite collections by Jean Jones is the "Angel of Death" poetry collection. That subject, as such, has received the most attention in this collection.

Some advice I received within the past couple years from Jean was about honesty, to be honest, always, in one's poetry. And to ask oneself, "does it read as honest?" I think that is a theme I've found in the poetry of Jean Jones. Sometimes you will read about his raw emotions and at other times you experience his feelings along with his observations about the world, life, death, God, faith, good and evil. Some poems draw upon some rather deep literary sources of inspiration. Other poems draw upon the every day experiences. I think all readers will find that his poems vary in complexity and thus defy simple characterization. I'm not aware of too many poets that similarly have such varied style in their writing.

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Date de parution	21 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456612726
Langue	English

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Revelations: The Best Poetry of Jean Arthur Jones Over the Years

Original Poetry by Jean Arthur Jones
Edited and Published by Bruce Martin Whealton, Jr. of Future Wave Designs and Word Salad Poetry Magazine
Copyright © 2012 by Bruce Whealton and Word Salad Publications
http://wordsaladpoetrymagazine.com
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from Bruce Whealton or Jean Jones.

Table of Contents
Credits Page What Others are Saying - Recommendations Introduction Honesty and the Poetry of Jean Jones The Poems For B.J., My Brother In the Dream Andrea The Awakening Mystery I Mystery II Mystery V Major Arcana: The World Eve Birth of the Second Beyond Good and Evil Witness to the Processional The Birds of Djakarta Heading Back Down the Caspian “il miglio fabbro” What is it? What is it? Part II The Patron Saint of Dinasaurs “ONCE IN A LIFETIME” The Angel of Death The Angel of Death Speaks The Angel of Death Reads The Angel of Death Listens to a Woman Pleading for Her Life The Angel of Death Listens to a Prayer The Angel of Death Meets the Press The Angel of Death Meets the President of the US The Writer Talks to the Angel of Death at a Full Moon The Angel of Death Addresses the US at a Rally For Beth (From the Book of Revelation) The Angel of Death Explains Why She Invented Tarot The Judgement On the Eve of the 25th Aftermath (After the Fall) The Angel of Death Interviews the Author The Angel of Death Speaks to Ishmael and Hagar The Angel of Death Speaks to the cleric The Angel of Death Makes a Visit Thoughts On Death Bonita Butler Bear Kills Militants Tent Cities Out of the Storm The Double in the Mirror The Poet’s Death

About the Author
Jean Jones attended St. Andrews Presbyterian College and received his B.A. Degree in English from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He later went on to receive an M.F. A. degree in creative writing from Bowling Green State University. His aawards include the Bowling Green State University Irina Ratushinskaya Freedom Book Award, the UNC Wilmington Creative Writing Program Book Award and the St. Andrews Fortner Writing and Community Award.
Besides being published by numerous literary magazines - including St. Andrews Review, Pembroke Magazine and Kansas Quaterly - he has been published by the following online magazines: fuse magazine, tribalkitchen, Beautiful Nuance, Poetic Rainbows, Germination, King David, mockfear zine, The Quill & Ink, lunatic chameleon, magenworld, ZCPortal, Ravens Three, Epiphany, Mystic Prophit, The Horror Zine, and Decompositions.
In 2005, Jones became the winner of the Beautiful Nuance 2005 LIzaBeth poetry award. He was also recently published in recent issues of Gravity Hill and Cairn, both from St. Andrews Press, as well as The Simple Vows Anthology. His book of poems, Beyond Good & Evil, can be found on Amazon.com.

What Others are Saying - Reviews & Recommendations

Jean Jones tackles the spoken word the way a lab rat tackles a labyrinth -- not only does he abscond with the cheese, he makes an omelet and exits unscathed, leaving only the reader dumbfounded.
- MJD Algera -- Author of Like Indigenous Tiger & Outskirts; Co-editor & Co-publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine
Jean’s work has always dealt with the essential questions of life, and he’s not afraid of tackling the largest, most metaphysical ones of all: How can we put faith in a God Who seems indifferent to our suffering? If everything is transitory, what sort of legacy can we leave? If my enemies harm me, and I know I can get away with it, why shouldn’t I kill them? Jean’s poetic explorations of these questions are lucid, heart-felt and quite frankly more philosophic than much of what you find in a college-level textbook.
--Scott Urban, long time contributor to Word Salad Poetry Magazine, which is edited by Jean Jones, along with MJD Algera and Bruce Whealton. Scott Urban has publsihed a number of poetry books as well as fictional works.

I ntroduction to Revelations
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I first started this publication on the web using a wiki - just a fancy word for a software tool that makes it easy to create new pages. This book has taken probably a year to complete. I fear that my friend, Jean, may have thought it would never be completed.

Let’s talk about me and this book and how it came together. Jean had asked me to pick some of his best poems and to publish them. I have been publishing poetry on the web since 1995. Or was it just yesterday? Has it been so long, these years since I first met Jean in 1992, half a lifetime ago? Perhaps there is value in knowing who I am in coming to understand this publication. There were so many poems by Jean from which to choose in coming up with a book entitled “The Best Poetry of Jean Jones Over The Years.” There is a great deal of purpose in the choice of poems and the order in which they appear in this publication. They are not in any kind of chronological order in terms of when they were written or when they were first published elsewhere. While I cannot articulate why I chose these particular poems or the exact order of them, I can say that there was a purpose to these decisions.
I think it is interesting, the times of miscommunication... when Jean might ask for feedback on his poems and then a few poems here and there might just not do much for me. However, what is amazing, is for Jean to conclude that I was suggesting or ever would suggest that I am not an admirer of his talents and his writing, or to think I am not a fan. I have said elsewhere that Jean is one of the few, very few, poets I would want to listen to read for one hour or more. I have to thank Jean for his advice on writing, which included the word “honesty” - see more about this below. That is what I am offering here, honesty.
So much has happened in the year or so that this poetry collection has been in the works. I got married for the first time in my life. I lost one of my best friends, who died before his time. I handled that by drinking and missed his funeral - a shame I felt that his family didn’t see me at the funeral. He was a mutual friend of Jean and me, named Thomas Childs. While, I have been a fan of Jean’s Angel of Death, series of poems, I also did not want this collection to be overly focused on death. A recent collection of his, edited by a mutual friend, Scott Urban, is appropriately titled “Post Mortem.” I was able to take a couple poems from that for this collection, including poems that I did not think of as being about death and loss. I have to point out that in addition to our losing a good friend, recently, Jean lost his mother.
In this past year or two years, I’ve had to focus on matters of income. It seems that whatever I do, whatever my focus is, I get totally engulfed in the pursuit. Not long ago, it was the effort of trying to establish myself as a poet, that engulfed my attention. However, these past two years or so, having realized that poetry would not offer an income, I turned to Web Development and programming, building a business with these skills and expanding my skills.
I have asked myself, can a person who gets away from writing poetry, really define him/herself as a poet? Jean and I have worked on Word Salad Poetry Magazine for a number of years, and I’ve even let that slide in terms of publishing it on schedule as had been the case previously. However, I haven’t wanted to give it up. In one form or another, poetry and writing has defined me. I think reading poetry can serve as a great source of inspiration, if it’s just right and touches you. I hope you, the reader, will be similarly touched by the writing here.
This has not been the first attempt to put together and publish a collection of the best poems by Jean Jones. A few years back, Ryan David Miller was given a large stack of poems written by Jean Jones going back to his days in his graduate school writing. As stated elsewhere, Jean received a M.F.A. degree in creative writing from Bowling Green State University, this was after he received his B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
I would like to introduce how I am approaching this book. I am relying upon my own experiences - both my experiences as a writer, poet and editor and my experiences with Jean Jones and having heard, read, and published his poetry over the past nearly 2 decades, nearly half our lifetimes. I have also worked with Jean Jones as co-editor for Word Salad Poetry Magazine and have offered my own feedback on his poems from time to time, as well as benefited greatly from his feedback on my own writing. Obviously this will be subjective, as it will be my ideas about what is the best poetry by Jean Jones. I have made an effort to get access to various poems to which I did not have access previously. While I will group many poems based on the collections to which they belong, e.g. the Angel of Death collection, I will also attempt to present different styles of poetry and a different approach to writing poetry as I have observed the poetry of Jean Jones over the years.

Honesty and the Poetry of Jean Arthur Jones

Honesty as Good Advice
I first met Jean Jones, in April of 92, some nineteen years ago. Hard to believe... I had just moved to a new city, Wilmington, NC. I was young and unsure of myself, like all poets starting out and daring to share their words with others.