Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance Author:Ken Jones I know of no poet writing today who blends the anger and hard edginess of street/performance poetry with the informed elegance of formal verse as effectively and artfully as Ken Jones. As I read the powerful poems of Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance, I feel and hear the fiery, verbal blasts of a host of two-headed, imaginary dragons: Emine... more »m and Wallace Stevens; Allen Ginsberg and William Blake; Walt Whitman and Lorenzo Thomas. Where can one find poems about drunk tanks, American Indians, teeth bleeding red at the bit, angst, the worship of dung, sex, materialistic greed run amok, spiritual yearning, and Santa Claus causing a disturbance in the mall? All within the covers of a single book? In Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance, that's where. In poem after carefully crafted poem.