James Land Jones
1934-1986
Friend, Mentor, Kindred Spirit
.....The Johnny Mercer House at Moon River where Jack and Jim lived in the early 1970s
Author of Adam's Dream: Mythic Consciousness in Keats and Yeats, Jim was also President of the Savannah Chapter of the Georgia Poetry Society, founder of the Oklahoma journal Nimrod, and a prize- winning poet. One of his best poems is