When the Only Light Is Fire Elina Alter among other publications

among other publications

Meher Baba

The writing in this volume

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple)

offered with exemplary attention

When the Only Light Is Fire Elina Alter among other publicationsIn his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi, these poems wrap themselves in cloaks of masks and comfort; garments we learn are flammable if we stand too close to flames. D. A. Powell says of