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Jordan Douglas Jones

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Jordan Jones is the author of Sand and Coal: Poems, published by Futharc Press in 1993 and The Wheel: Poems, published by Leaping Dog Press in 2005.

His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translations have appeared in The American Book Review, Asylum, The Boston Book Review, Fiction International, Heaven Bone, The LA Reader, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Small Press, Vice Versa and in the anthologies Anyone Is Possible: New American Short Fiction (Red Hen Press, 1998) and What Book: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (Parallax Press, 1998). In 2004, Obscure Publications published Selections from The Wheel. His translation of René Daumal’s poetry collection Le Contre-Ciel appeared in two chapbooks from Obscure Publications in 20 ...more

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	Le Contre-ciel / The Anti-heaven Part One Translated from the French by Jordan Jones by René Daumal, Jordan Douglas Jones (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1936 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone Is Possible: New American Short Fiction by Mark Cull (Editor), Kate Gale (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jordan Douglas Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wheel: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sand and Coal: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simi Valley I Know: An Essay it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bakunin, Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 1994 by Paris De Soto, Eric Paul Shaffer (Goodreads Author), Jordan Douglas Jones (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best: Fiction and Poetry From Csun, 1962-1988 by Warren Wedin (Editor), Jordan Douglas Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rousse - Les Beaux habitants de l'univers

by Denis Infante

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The Seine: The River that Made Paris

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