Description: Product DescriptionKimberly Johnson's dazzling first collection is rooted in the land and language she inherits, then claims for her own. Informed throughout by Milton's Paradise Lost, Johnson's poems burst with the flora and fauna of a magnificently imagined landscape, and gain their power from the incomparable language she uses to describe it. This language is itself an organism in her writing, grown from its own seed, its "vowels blooming like necessary globes/with sharp, consonantal edges." Her voice is wholly new and unique; Leviathan with a Hook heralds the arrival of one of the new standard-bearers of American verse.From Publishers WeeklyA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Johns Hopkins M.A. program, Kimberly Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Berkeley. In Leviathan with a Hook, she divides nearly 50 mostly page-length lyrics on spring, fruit, love, Christian…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9780892552825
Book Title: Leviathan with a Hook Poems
Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Persea Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2002
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Author: Kimberly Ann Johnson
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Book, Hardcover