Things That Happen Once New Poems Author:Rodney Jones Things 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... more » energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.« less