Jim Johnstone (63 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A Near Fine copy of the First Edition with a touch of wear to red pictorial wraps. 74pp. // 'Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone's fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridge's opium dreams, Johnstone's narratives in The Chemical Life are hallucinatory, coloured by his use of both prescription and recreational drugs. Returning often to the notion of rival realities"in everything, there is a second state"Johnstone is brilliantly disruptive and disorientating; a poet whose savagely austere forms, electrically precise images and keyed-up rhythms reveal an obsession with the mind-altering properties of language itself.' -- publisher. …

Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. A Near Fine copy with a touch of edgewear, else minimal shelfwear with an uncreased spine. Internally clean and free of markings. // 'Mercurial and modern, THE NEXT WAVE is an output-based anthology of 21st century Canadian poetry. Curated by Jim Johnstone, it features 40 early-to-mid-career Canadian writers selected from a diverse range of national and international presses. While THE NEXT WAVE surveys poets from across Canada, its contributors are the product of a global mindset--a distinct generation of writers characterized by the variety of their formal and aesthetic choices. Gathered into an anthology that is pertinent as well as predictive, each of the poets in THE NEXT WAVE is proof of a re-invigorated national literature. THE NEXT WAVE contains over 150 poems from writers who have published exclusively in the new century. Among the poets included are Jordan Abel, Shane Book, Mark Callanan, Dani Couture, Kayla Czaga, Jeramy Dodds, Liz Howard, Aisha Sasha John, Sonnet L'Abbe, Ben Ladouceur, Jeff Latosik, Nyla Matuk, Sachiko Murakami, Michael Prior, Damian Rogers, and Ian Williams.' -- publisher.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar."There is a moving, fierce intensity to The King of Terrors. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, 'each bloody / mouthful a sentence fragment.' These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone - despite a future only as certain 'as the body // it inhabits' - offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself." - Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems"The King of Terrors is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between / age and agency.' Haunting, stark, and lyrical, The King of Terrors is charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal." - Sarah Holland-Batt, author of The Jaguar.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Infinity Network completes Jim Johnstone's ambitious trilogy which began with Dog Ear (2014) and continued with The Chemical Life (2017). Central to each volume is the struggle with identity at a time of great social change. Justifiably acclaimed for his exquisite rendering of acute states of mind, Johnstone explores pressing questions about the ubiquity of surveillance and social media, and evokes, with a powerful intelligence, the neurosis of living in a consumerism-obsessed era. Infinity Network not only attempts to capture the changing ideas of personhood, but also tries to create a new kind of verse to track it-a complex, bold, stark style able to give uncanny interiority to our digital dreads. As our lives descend further into disinformation and algorithmic control, Johnstone has emerged as the laureate of, in Keats's words, truth "proved upon our pulses.".…

Paperback. Condition: New. CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar."There is a moving, fierce intensity to The King of Terrors. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, 'each bloody / mouthful a sentence fragment.' These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone - despite a future only as certain 'as the body // it inhabits' - offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself." - Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems"The King of Terrors is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between / age and agency.' Haunting, stark, and lyrical, The King of Terrors is charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal." - Sarah Holland-Batt, author of The Jaguar.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated First Edition. A Near Fine copy in bright green printed wraps with minimal shelfwear and an uncreased spine. // 'CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023 What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar.' -- publisher. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Praised for his darkly psychological accounts of extreme experiences, Jim Johnstone's fifth book of poems explores his most difficult terrain to date: mental illness and addiction. Like Coleridge's opium dreams, Johnstone's narratives are hallucinatory, colored by his use of both prescription and recreational drugs. Returning often to the notion of rival realities, Johnstone is brilliantly disruptive and disorientating-a poet whose savagely austere forms, electrically precise images, and keyed-up rhythms reveal an obsession with the mind-altering properties of language itself.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is new. 74 pages. "Canadian poetry. An exploration of mental illness and addiction.".

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves? Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we're never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar."There is a moving, fierce intensity to The King of Terrors. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, each bloody / mouthful a sentence fragment. These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone despite a future only as certain as the body // it inhabits offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself." Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems"The King of Terrors is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between / age and agency.' Haunting, stark, and lyrical, The King of Terrors is charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal." Sarah Holland-Batt, author of The Jaguar Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 80 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How does one define a body of work as enigmatic and encompassing as the poetry of A. F. Moritz? In Living History, Jim Johnstone curates a selection of all new essays that establishes Moritz as a poet who is at once alive to history's possibilities, while also set on enacting history in the present moment, poem by poem. This collection contains scholarly work situated alongside broader essays about its subject's early publications all the way to his stint as Toronto's Poet Laureate, from contributors such as Brian Bartlett, George Elliott Clarke, Paul Franz, Anita Lahey, Ross Leckie, Micheline Maylor, Ben Meyerson, Shane Neilson, Alexandra Oliver, Robyn Sarah, and Karen Solie. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large format stapled booklet with photo of accordion player (JJ) Contents very clean, appear unmarked. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Small handling wear on cover and spine, no writing inside.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 74 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece photo of author. Paperback.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 8.75x5.55x0.00 inches. In Stock.