"In Passport, his 20th book, Richard Jones has moved increasingly from the lyric grounded in the everyday to a kind of magical realism where he sees in daily life transformations all around, as if a curtain has parted or he has touched the hem of some great mystery. "Reading is like magic," says one of his characters. "Though desolate and broken, we can love the way the world flows together." In Joness poems the search never ends; the answer itself resides in asking the right questions"--.