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Billy Jones is an artist, poet and emotional expatriate born in Camden, New Jersey in 1935. In addition to his seven previously published poetry collections (from which the poems in this volume have been selected) and numerous exhibitions, he has kept a journal of drawings, paintings and poetry every day since 28 June 1975. Started on the banks of Mary Smokes Creek five weeks after his then girlfriend, Diane Kelly, was killed in a car accident, his journal now numbers 144 volumes – some 70,000 pages, including approximately 4,500 illustrations. A second volume of his selected poems and drawings, based on these unpublished journal volumes, is forthcoming from soi 3 modern poets.

 

 
   
billy jones - 27/6/03

Jezus Christ
son-of-a-bitch
holy motherfucking cow
I'm in Paris! I never thought
I'd ever get to Paris . . .
gets me back into
the last part
of my novel

so what
if it's
taken 20
years to
get this
f-a-r

micro
macro
manic
me

I know more
now than
I have
ever

silence
singing
like a dawn
struck bird