Books
WHAT WATER KNOWS
Northwestern University Press (June 2021)
Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s third collection of poems is a stunning meditation on both the harmful and nourishing qualities of water. What Water Knows: Poems (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press; June 15, 2021) shares the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances.
“Such a vibrant and beautiful book. I truly read it with my heart in my throat. LaMon speaks a language at once as familiar and foreign as love itself—with so much love. There is such a deep quietude to this book. She takes us beneath the covers of what it means to be a woman, to be a mother, to be Black, to be trapped—and finally, what it means to be free. I cannot wait for this book to be in the world. Everything I needed right now.” —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and the author of Red at the Bone: A Novel
LAST SEEN
Univ. of Wisconsin Press (2011)
Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
"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
GRAVITY, U.S.A.
Quercus Review Press (2006)
Winner of the Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award
"With her debut, Jacqueline Jones LaMon graces us with a collection both introspective and out of body, her poems taking on the weight of the everyday world, and the extraordinary within it. GRAVITY, U.S.A. is not just a book filled with a subtle, sorrowful, and ultimately brazen power, but a place where you'll want to visit, and stay.”
—Kevin Young, author of BLUE LAWS: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me
One World/Ballantine (2002)
"In the Arms is a well-written novel by Ms. LaMon. She uses her skills as a poet effectively, and she definitely has a way with words that can move the reader."
—THE NUBIAN CHRONICLES
