Reflections on the Dark Water

This collection takes as its subjects loss and memory in the landscapes and wild spaces of the American South, connecting and weaving personal losses with the larger threads of ecological disruption and environmental degradation. These poems seek wildness in industrial, pastoral, rural, and urban places--places neither wholly sacred nor fully desecrated. Memories of growing up in Alabama and surviving family tragedy all push the speaker outward, seeking connections with "that other world" outside ourselves.

Praise for Reflections on the Dark Water:

Reflections on the Dark Water concerns itself with memory and myth, how the bridge between the two--how the line where they intersect--is the irrevocable location of history. M.P. Jones crosses that bridge, that line over and again in poems that view the past in order to make sense of the present. This is a book that wants to separate "truth from chaff." --Jericho Brown, author of The New Testament

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Madison Jones is a Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Florida-where he studies ecocomposition and environmental rhetoric and works with the TRACE journal & innovation initiative. He is editor-in-chief of Kudzu House Quarterly, a literary and scholarly journal devoted to ecological thought. Reflections on the Dark Water is his second poetry collection, following Live at Lethe (Sweatshoppe, 2013). He has poems forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Birmingham Poetry Review, and The Fourth River. Recent publications include co-editing (with Steven Petersheim) Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature; and his poetry has appeared in Canary, Tampa Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; book reviews in ISLE, Kenyon Review Online, Journal of Ecocriticism, and elsewhere. For more information, visit his website: ecopoiesis.com.