Books by Jacqueline Jones Lamon and Complete Book Reviews

Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Author . Ballantine/ One World $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-44719-7
Ostensibly about two young African-Americans trying to make it in Manhattan in the early 1980s, LaMon's debut reads more like a paranoid rant, the kind of self-indulgent screed that climaxes with a poetry contest. Nia Benson's universe...
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Jacqueline Jones LaMon. TriQuarterly, $17 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-0-8101-4384-5
Water is the central theme of LaMon’s meditative third collection (after Last Seen). Divided into three sections (“The Fragile Resilient Life”; “The Open, Empty Mouth”; “The Promise of Relief”), these poems show the extremes of the element, from its
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