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A new collection from the author of Traveler

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 between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformation and transfer. They draw on early blues and rivers, on ironies and uncertainties, guided by enigmatic signals: an orange blaze that marks no trail. From image to image, they render fleeting experiences with etched precision. As Ange Mlinko has observed of Johnston''s work, Each poem holds in balance a lapidary concision and utter lush

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9780374538958, 978-0374538958
      ISBN10: 0374538956

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A new collection from the author of Traveler

      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 between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformation and transfer. They draw on early blues and rivers, on ironies and uncertainties, guided by enigmatic signals: an orange blaze that marks no trail. From image to image, they render fleeting experiences with etched precision. As Ange Mlinko has observed of Johnston''s work, Each poem holds in balance a lapidary concision and utter lush

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