Alabama

<i>Alabama</i> focuses on a boy from a rural fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist feminist and existentialist poet. Labyrinth meditation fable and peasant poem formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story all expressed with the intimate voice and vision of Rodney Jones.