So, instead of being a distant object, my past becomes an "offering" of sorts to the reader. Memories that I thought were ash, in fact, were still hot to the touch. It was a past-tense terrain, but, of course, once I got down into the muck of writing-the real work of it all-that distance vanished. SJ When I started writing these poems, the South was a distant object to me. JG When the Only Light is Fire opens with an epigraph by Reginald Shepherd. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bloom, Hayden's Ferry Review, storySouth, jubilat, West Branch, Weave, The Collagist, and Linebreak. Saeed Jones has a MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University. The poems of Saeed Jones possess a searing emotional intensity that is so finely cadenced and controlled, readers can't help but be seduced by this ferocious siren song of a book.
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