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title: "When the Only Light Is Fire Paperback – November 15, 2011"
brand: "saeed jones"
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# When the Only Light Is Fire Paperback – November 15, 2011

**Brand:** saeed jones
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- **What is this?** When the Only Light Is Fire Paperback – November 15, 2011 by saeed jones
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "cadenced and controlled... searing emotional intensity.. a ferocious siren of a book," (anna journey, from the back cover)
            
*by L***Y on April 30, 2012*

Saeed Jones writes like only a Southern poet can. Evocative of the earth and longing. Passion driving the words, taking you inside a landscape lit with a fire that burns from the inside and is scorched, parched, ripe, found. Grasped and held up. These are polished poems from unpolished worlds, poems lit by their refractions. You'll find in them a rare courage. A bright voice. A voice honed in places you may or may not have ever seen.As a poet, I have an astute eye for poems that bow beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary in a way substantial and distinct enough to leave a mark. Each line here is an art. Each poem stands alone, but the collection itself likewise lends each poem a rare depth and breadth. This is stunning work, important not only for queer poets of color, but for humanity.(I read a review on Lambda Literary Foundation's site that cued me to the book...)
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful Poetry
            
*by R***Y on September 13, 2013*

Jones has a talent for getting to the heart of things.  His poems are gritty, rhythmic, and a joy to read.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Visceral, Vivid Imagery Both Personal & Profound
            
*by R***R on May 31, 2012*

I'd first come across the collection in search of a purchase to better understand a press, and the description really stood out for me. Although I was born in Germany and live in Berlin now, many of my formulative years were spend in the southern U.S. in the states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisana, and these are some of the places the poet grew up."Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way...." How well I understood that description and recall many such places, such dangers!I wanted to read the author's impressions of those places and compare them to my own, my collection "CORE" is forthcoming. Sometimes they were agonizingly similar based on being from a minority population and with a sexuality publicly reviled yet privately practiced so that abuse can be common of those who are not allowed to have voices.Visceral, vivid, yet often using a minimum of words, this was a difficult collection for me to read, as often the images created through the poet's words triggered my own memories of darkness, abuse, aloneness and pain. I found it outstanding, courageous and to be admired for the ability to share personal emotions and experiences.
  

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