The Night Season
Poems
$34.84
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
The poems in this collection fiercely advocate a munificent wonder and respect for the natural world from our small vantage in a vast universe.
Rooted in the tension between science and wonder, The Night Season probes phenomena we are aware of but will never fully grasp: the workings of the cosmos that we see only eons after their actual occurrence, deep time rendered through artifacts left by people before us, shifts and accretions that occur beneath the earth’s surface that w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826370532 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826370535 |
| Author: | Julie Swarstad Johnson |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 83g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series |
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Critics Review
“This is a stunning collection. Johnson’s poems call forth the best of human sensibility to evoke the limits of what humans can really know; they remind us of how small we are and of the brevity of our existence given the vastness of history above and below us. The collection holds layers of immense phenomena in balance, and it does so with grace.” – Leslie Ullman, author of Unruly Tree: Poems
Julie Swarstad Johnson
Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania Furnace and two poetry chapbooks, Orchard Light and Jumping the Pit, as well as a coeditor of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. She lives in Tucson, where she works as an archivist and librarian for the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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