Bill Jones 
Stil Life in a Hurricane 

“Jones’s heart embraces a range of generations and hemispheres, engulfing dream worlds, rendering for us the results of vision, bravery, and generosity in this writing. Still Life in a Hurricane is a reckoning, a love letter, an act of courage, a gentle companion into the unknown. It is what we are always feeling, even under clearest skies. It is the song we realize we are dancing to, under a night sky where the wishing stars give way to their surrounding black.”
—Barbara De Cesare, Poet, Author of Jigsaw Eyesore and Silent Type
“Jones transforms memory, humor, loss, and the everyday into extraordinary moments; through this powerful collection, he elevates the mundane and the profane into the holy. Jones beckons us to stop, perk our ears and train our vision, to see into the past and be present in what’s right now, all around us, and revel in this glorious life by immersing ourselves in it. Still Life in a Hurricane beckons the reader to acknowledge the beauty of the storm, the eye, the aftermath, and the recovery.”
—Matt Hohner, Poet, Author of States and Thresholds and Other Poems

About the author

Still Life in a Hurricane is Bill Jones’s third collection of writing and his first containing both poetry and prose. His first collection, the chapbook Swimming at Night, won a Baltimore Artscape Literary Arts Award for Poetry. His second, At Sunset, Facing East, a memoir in poetry, was published by Apprentice House Press in 2016. Over the past thirty years, his writing has appeared in numerous small press magazines and journals across the country, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Caesura, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, Loch Raven Review, Passager, Slant, and many others. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Jane Croghan Jones.