JACQUELINE JONES LaMON

Winner of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, her latest poetry collection, LAST SEEN, is a provocative and heartrending collection of poems, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

 

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JACQUELINE JONES LaMON

Winner of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, her latest poetry collection, LAST SEEN, is a provocative and heartrending collection of poems, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

 

Read more

JACQUELINE JONES LaMON

Winner of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, her latest poetry collection, LAST SEEN, is a provocative and heartrending collection of poems, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

 

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Praises for LAST SEEN (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011)

"At the heart of Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s new collection LAST SEEN is a haunting series of poems born of the silence tragedy and loss wedges into our lives. With restraint and through a variety of characters, LaMon gives voice to those whose voices have been lost to us, who’ve left behind only questions and vivid empty spaces the way a boy, dragging his foot, leaves a trace to follow, fleeting as a ‘mark in the snow."—Natasha Tretheway, author of NATIVE GUARD

 

 

 

"In their powerful tension between absence and presence, between broken narrative and richly detailed lyric, LaMon’s poetic sequences put all our assumptions about stability and permanence into question.”—Martha Collins, author of BLUE FRONT

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