Far-Fetched: Poems - Softcover

Johnston, Devin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374536708 ISBN 13: 9780374536701

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016

Synopsis

A collection from one of contemporary American poetry's finest craftsmen

Through birdcalls and ancient songs, rain patter and a child's scribble, the poems in Far-Fetched "sound the empty space / to test how long / how far." They follow the contours of Appalachian hillsides, Missouri river bends, and remote Australian coastlines, tuning language to landscape. They register emotional life with great care; this is a work of fierce and delicate attention to the world. It is also poetry meant to be heard, alert to the pleasures of sound. As August Kleinzahler has observed, "In Devin Johnston's poetry every syllable is alive; the vowels and consonants combine to make a distinctive, lovely, austere music."

About this title

About the Author

Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of six 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, where he lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374536708
• ISBN 13: 9780374536701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96