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Prelude to Bruise Steve Box Providing a critical evaluation ofBy Saeed Jones. Published by Coffee House Press. Softcover, 124 pages, Prose, 2014. Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed."FlavorWire "This book leaves your body transformed in a way that poetry should." ElevenEleven "I get shout happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness, and outright joy."D. A. Powell