Imaginary LogicA new collection from a Kingsley Tufts Awardwinning poet Imaginary Logic is a brilliantly expansive, deeply meditative, and at times wildly imaginative collection of poems that combines Rodney Joness distinctive storytelling ability, sharp social intelligence, and keen powers of observation in a book that is wistful, satiric, audacious, and remorseless. The Art of Heaven opens with a parody of Dante and a down home, twisted humor that Joness readers

The Lady of the Ravens inhabits the squalid streets of Tudor London

his old friends and his new ones

her clever ten-year-old daughter

Men are like buses

and now he wants her to belong to him heart and soul—as the woman of his most passionate fantasies

a styilsh \"nannybot\" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger

Strangers shared their own journeys and heartbreak with me

the majority of politicians and business leaders profess to believe in gender equality—as well they might

could break Jade's sunny personality or her fierce refusal to be a victim

For today’s knowledge workers

Very Good: Living in peace and creating good from the bad

Charlotte wants to be a geologist and keeps a rock collection in her room