So You Want to be a Poet

About the Book

What is poetry? This question invites the reader to enter this collection of poems. Within is an array of free-verse offerings covering a range of themes—a would-be poet’s dawdling (“Confessions of a Procrastinator”), the fading of summer (“Vestiges”), the ongoing war in Syria (“I Am Omran”), a mysterious drowning (“The Silent River”), the frustration of mediocre golf skills (“On the Cusp”), the fanciful account of a new home for mankind (“Eden Revisited”), a self-ordained preacher’s quest to save his best friend’s soul, mini episodes on the realities, contrasts, and ironies of life (“The World According to Fedley Tresh and Charley Cain”), impressions at a poetry reading (“Poetry Reading at the Bookstore”), remembering Mary Oliver (“When a Poet Dies”), and dozens of others, hopefully something for everyone. “If There Were No Poetry” concludes the collection and poses the question, Who would we be and how would we be if there were no poetry?

About the Author

Lou Jones is a Marine Corps veteran and retired Caterpillar Inc. division manager. Lou is a member of the Greensboro Writers’ Guild, Greensboro, Georgia, and the Georgia Poetry Society (contest chairperson, 2009/2012). Lou’s poetry reflects his keen interest in the human condition — our origins, behaviors, relationships, ideologies, scientific inquiry, how we view our world and the universe in which we reside. He previously published two poetry collections, From Microbe to Consciousness and After the Blast, also a novel, And Then the Monarchs Flew Away. Lou and his wife, Toni, live in The Fairways, Savannah Quarters, Pooler, Georgia.