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Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, ‘each bloody \/ mouthful a sentence fragment.’ These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone – despite a future only as certain ‘as the body \/\/ it inhabits’ – offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself.\" – Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems  \"The King of Terrors is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living 'between \/ age and agency.' 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