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Traveler

Traveler

Johnston, Devin

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0374533482
ISBN13: 9780374533489
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Feb 19 2013
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The poems in Devin Johnston's Traveler cross great distances, from the Red Hills of Kansas to the Rough Bounds of the Scottish Highlands, following weather patterns, bird migrations, and ocean voyages. Less literally, these poems move through translations and protean transformations. Their subjects are often next to nothing in several senses: cloud shadows racing across a valley before dusk, the predawn expectation of a child's birth, or the static-electric charge of clothing fabric. Throughout, Johnston offers vivid glimpses of the phenomenal world: He describes objects with his hands and his eyes, noting texture, heft, and fit (Boston Review). Equally, one finds a keen attention to sound in the patterning of subtle rhymes and rhythms, demonstrating care and precision with line and pause (Poetry).

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