Similar to the coal-like mineral in the opening poem, “Anthracite,” the speaker in Jones’s poems must endure extreme heat before igniting and changing form. Though I always try to separate the poet from the work, Jones’s poems are written in a voice so brutally honest that differentiating between him and the poetic “I” is nearly impossible. As I dug into Prelude to Bruise, I found myself regularly flipping to his photo on the last page, his face in half shadow, his eyes glaring sideways. Jones’s poems are mostly narrative free verse and artfully employ empty space and varying line lengths to ferry conflict. Though the title hints at an agonizing inevitability, the collection implies that a bruise may, in fact, denote healthy progress.
Saeed Jones’s first full-length book, Prelude to Bruise, is a necessary piece of contemporary poetry that bravely tackles issues such as abuse, promiscuity, homosexuality, and racism. Deprecated function: Return type of DateObject::setTimezone($tz, $force = false) should either be compatible with DateTime::setTimezone(DateTimeZone $timezone): DateTime, or the # attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in include_once() (line 143 of /var/Saeed Jones.Deprecated function: Return type of DateObject::format($format, $force = false) should either be compatible with DateTime::format(string $format): string, or the # attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in include_once() (line 143 of /var/.
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