Augury by Linnea Johnson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Augury by Linnea Johnson Johnsons poems are passionate in their hunger for knowledge, their quest to envision the immigrant past, their love of animals, and their love of love. They radiate the energy of a full life. Reading them makes everything--from mourning loved ones to revisiting fairy tales--more intense and alive.--Adrienne Su. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Conjured from hen scratches and devils tales, from family stories and ancestral songs, Linnea Johnsons poems migrate from a landscape of elegy to roost in the cliffs of lyric transformation. In musical lines that narrate both the natural history of birds and their folklore, as well as her family history of Swedish immigration to the Midwest, Johnson explores the darkness that leads to light. "It is flesh which remembers, bones which are/remembered.... Who would not believe her?"—Catherine Anderson Author Biography AUGURY is Linnea Johnsons second collection of poems. Her first collection, THE CHICAGO HOME, is the first winner of the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Award, first published in 1986, then republished in 2007 by Alice James Books (Farmington, Maine). She is also a watercolorist, photographer, and papermaker, essayist, fiction writer, political activist, and sometime performance artist. Her reading of a cycle of poems in play form, Swedish Christmas, is available as a CD. She grew up in Chicago and loves it still. Spring usually finds her on the Platte River in Nebraska among migrating Sandhill Cranes. Most Septembers she breathes with the tides on the rocky coast of Maine. Where she would live actually and not just virtually is at her fathers thatched-roof farmhouse on the southwestern coast of Sweden. Right now she lives with chickens, cats, a pup, and a writer/chicken-homesteader on a few acres on the extreme west side of Lawrence, Kansas, where a coyote naps in the meadow, bluebirds nest outside her writing room window, and tornadoes swirl by every now and then. Linnea Johnson holds a BA and a Ph.D. in English and an MA in Writing and Womens Studies and has taught in colleges and universities. She founded Red Stuga Studio and Espelunda 3 Productions, a Writing and Creativity Mentoring Consultancy offering private mentoring and classes in creativity, poetry, prose, and playwriting along with play, CD, and staged reading productions. Review "Conjured from hen scratches and devils tales, from family stories and ancestral songs, Linnea Johnsons poems migrate from a landscape of elegy to roost in the cliffs of lyric transformation. In musical lines that narrate both the natural history of birds and their folklore, as well as her family history of Swedish immigration to the Midwest, Johnson explores the darkness that leads to light. ""It is flesh which remembers, bones which are/remembered.... Who would not believe her?"" - Catherine Anderson Details ISBN1935218123 Author Linnea Johnson Short Title AUGURY Pages 108 Publisher Backwaters Press Language English ISBN-10 1935218123 ISBN-13 9781935218128 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 2010 Imprint Backwaters Press UK Release Date 2010-11-01 Publication Date 2010-11-01 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-11-01 NZ Release Date 2010-11-01 US Release Date 2010-11-01 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159491400;

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