At Last We Enter Paradise

Richard Jones’s second collection is an ambitious, symphonic group of poems about grief, loss, and human separateness. Jones writes in the rhythms of natural conversation and with a relaxed tone, using narrative and a sharp eye for detail to create poems rich with parable-like, aphoristic wisdom. By ordering moments of mundane experience to reveal uncommon perception, Jones goes beneath the superficial to explore daily epiphanies that might otherwise be overlooked.