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From the award-winning poet and novelist--a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.
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nothing to drink in the refrigerator but juice from the pickles come back long dead, or thin catsup. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
These poems make your heart bleed, and other cliches for expressing great beauty. Obviously, i can't use language like johnson, he has a grasp of language and LIFE that is beyond any other. Like Larkin on smack, he can worm inside your deepest thoughts with simple words. "and you would know, GODDAMMIT! And you would never be able to say" - thats a good line! (or two). Get all his books, like i have.
Format:Paperback
Denis Johnson's collection revives his long out-of-print "Man Among the Seals" and continues Johnson's life-long look at America's disenfranchised and marginalized. These poems have all kinds of surprises, both in subject matter and uses of language. Well worth buying, if you're interested in contemporary poetry.
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Will the Poet Come Home?
17 Nov 1999
Format:Paperback
Doubtless, Denis Johnson is an extraordinary writer of fiction: his stories and novels are terrifying, delightful, hilarious, and bleak. But it remains, even in the prose, the quality of the language, the strange otherworldly perceptions he distills to image and figure, that drives the work. JESUS' SON is a great work, as is ANGELS. The other novels and stories would be enough to give him a reputation as a first rate writer. But the poems! That's where he started, and if you want to see how he got where fiction has taken him, go to the poems. It's not like any other poetry. He's a kind of dark, dwarf Rilke, a kind of misbegotten, doesn't-want-to-be-bad-but-can't-help-it Neruda. Denis Johnson is not the sort of poet the Academy of American Poets will celebrate, and that says far more about the Academy than about Johnson. What I wish? Another collection of poems. Soon.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A major collection
21 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
Denis Johnson's collection revives his long out-of-print "Man Among the Seals" and continues Johnson's life-long look at America's disenfranchised and marginalized. These poems have all kinds of surprises, both in subject matter and uses of language. Well worth buying, if you're interested in contemporary poetry.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Amazing poetry
23 Nov 2008
Format:Hardcover
I love this collection so much I put one of the poems (The Flames) on my ceiling in black marker so I could read it before going to sleep.
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