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 A second volume of his selected poems and drawings, based on these unpublished journal volumes, is forthcoming from soi 3 modern poets. His latest book is Wren Lines published by soi 3 modern poets. |
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awake at 5 I open the doors the earlier I get up the more time during the days w-e-r-t-a-s-d |