Summary
Not days of anger but days of mild congestion, infants of inconstant sorrow, days of foam in gutters, blossoms and snow mingling where they fall, a spring of cold profusion.
If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary of human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374538958 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0374538956 |
| Author: | Devin Johnston |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 124mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
Named one of the best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review
“Johnston’s seventh book, like his previous collections, is quiet, emotionally reserved and a marvel of technical prowess … Johnston’s poetry is admirable as much for its classical poise as for the tremors that both undermine and bolster that poise.” –David Orr, The New York Times Book Review
“Attentive to the physical world and intricately wrought, Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens shows a poet of fine-grained discrimination. If intentionally less lush, the play of assonance and consonance (often in iambs) is as striking yet subtle as that of Keats or Heaney.” –Scott Bartley, Literary Matters
Devin Johnston
Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of five previous books of poetry and two books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays. He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
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