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Dragons: Poems
The seventh book of poems from Devin Johnston, a poet who can "change the way you breathe" (Maureen N. McLane).
Dragons is a collection of sonorous, sensual poems from Devin Johnston, “one of the finest craftsmen of verse we have” (Michael Autrey, Booklist ). Attentive to both the physical world and our place in it, his arresting images of nature and human life ring with quiet power. An elegy for a ten-year-old hen; a fourth grader seeing a fox, his “fur waistcoat immaculate”; the sound of neighbors arguing set against the “pallid flames” of the setting together, such scenes form a resonant, restrained meditation on life’s journey and “the feeling of time.”
Dragons is a collection of sonorous, sensual poems from Devin Johnston, “one of the finest craftsmen of verse we have” (Michael Autrey, Booklist ). Attentive to both the physical world and our place in it, his arresting images of nature and human life ring with quiet power. An elegy for a ten-year-old hen; a fourth grader seeing a fox, his “fur waistcoat immaculate”; the sound of neighbors arguing set against the “pallid flames” of the setting together, such scenes form a resonant, restrained meditation on life’s journey and “the feeling of time.”
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Hardcover
First published March 14, 2023
About the author
Devin Johnston
17 books14 followersBorn in Canton, New York, Devin Johnston grew up in Winston-Salem and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Far-Fetched (2015), Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Aversions (2004), and Telepathy (2001). His prose writing includes the critical study Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and Other Essays (2009). A former poetry editor for the Chicago Review from 1995-2000, Johnston co-founded and co-edits Flood Editions with Michael O’Leary.
He lives in St. Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University.
He lives in St. Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University.
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June 9, 2023
Poems about the beauty in the mundane. My personal favorite was "Notes on a Campaign," the first poem I've ever read about playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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