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The poems in Devin Johnston’s Traveler cranky good distances, from a Red Hills of Kansas to a Rough Bounds of a Scottish Highlands, following continue patterns, bird migrations, and sea voyages. Less literally, these poems pierce by translations and variable transformations. Their subjects are mostly subsequent to zero in several senses: cloud shadows racing opposite a hollow before dusk, a predawn expectancy of a child’s birth, or a static-electric assign of wardrobe fabric. Throughout, Johnston offers clear glimpses of a unusual world: “He describes objects with his hands and his eyes, observant texture, heft, and fit” (Boston Review). Equally, one finds a penetrating courtesy to sound in a patterning of pointed rhymes and rhythms, demonstrating “care and pointing with line and pause” (Poetry).
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #373306 in Books
- Published on: 2011-08-30
- Released on: 2011-08-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .47" h x 5.84" w x 8.43" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 80 pages
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“Sparkling with appetite and intelligence, these poems are like chips in a mosaic, spare, hard, precise, and with a classical amiability and grace.” —David Malouf
“Traveler is Johnston’s sixth book, and his fourth communication collection, following Sources (2008), a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. Johnston writes in a prolonged shade of William Carlos Williams’ dictum, “no ideas though in things,” though Johnston proves difference are things. He is not a compendium poet, though readers will find that visits to a compendium are rewarded. The pretension poem, about a emigration of a Blackburnian warbler, includes “pinnate leaves.” Pinnate means feather-shaped. So a fluke of a bird nearing in Johnston’s black walnut tree becomes consequential, an additional of definition unearthed like a hoary from a sediments of English. Even if his subjects are prosaic, Johnston is not a producer of a quotidian: his closely celebrated poems find definition during these nerve-endings of word and world. “Iona,” a longest poem in a book, includes many odd words, as if new embankment and geology non-stop new leaves of excellent print. He is one of a excellent craftsmen of hymn we have.” —Michael Autrey, Booklist (starred)
“Devin Johnston takes we with him when he goes down Route M or ambles along a shores of Iona, a dedicated island. His anecdotal veneer is studded with a lush dictionary . . . Capturing a fad of new places, Johnston paradoxically stirs adult a clarity of palliate and belonging . . . Johnston pushes sound like few contemporary writers can or caring to, producing tensile power in columns of lines that indicate beautifully . . . Ultimately, Traveler is about life’s passages and a query for temperament and community. This means wordsmith offers us a changed passport.” —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail
“This poetic book starts with a consult of land traversed afterwards turns skilfully toward a some-more puzzling tour of a child's birth and early years. A sanatorium guard ‘illuminates / a imperishable operation / of your estate, from low notch / to trackless slopes.’ Johnston’s images and brief lines competence lure some to tag him a minimalist, though that would confute a brilliance of these poems' textures, their deceit rhymes and meters: ‘across an ocean, / skimming foamy paragraphs of Ossian.’ No matter where his gawk travels, Johnston evokes a universe with a consternation it—and his book—deserves.” —Dave Lucas, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
About a Author
Born in 1970, Devin Johnston was lifted in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a author of 3 prior books of poetry; as good as dual books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays, reflections on a healthy world. He works as an editor for Flood Editions, a nonprofit edition house, and teaches during Saint Louis University in Missouri.
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