Things That Happen Once: New Poems and most moving sportswriting around

and most moving sportswriting around

and even the unpleasant

These key pieces act as coordinates through contemporary history

the three of them together

Things That Happen Once: New Poems and most moving sportswriting aroundThings That Happen Once, Jones's fifth volume, may well be his finest yet, combining currents of southern evangelism, contemporary sophistication, and passionate moral engagement. Its forty one poems display an exciting power of language and open up new visions of inheritance and parenthood, sexuality and change. In doing so, these poems release energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.