"Jones can be stunning, effortlessly finding the right tone. This is instinctive poetry, combining bluntness with reserve."-The Village Voice "Richard Jones... demonstrates an ability both to transform into affirmation the tragedies of personal experience and to extract from them a more universal truth."-Library Journal "Richard Jones is a poet of the heart."-Poetry "With deceptive ease and scrupulous economy of means, Jones portrays the human face of loneliness, desire, loss--and the redemptive power of awareness and acceptance." -Booklist