Durable Goods by Gordon Johnston
Durable Goods, poem by poem, finds lasting value in ordinary daily acts and objects -- shaving with an inherited safety razor, packing a backpack for a wilderness trek, listening to Neal Young on a cassette worn to the brink of uselessness, answering a toddler daughter's questions about air. There are letter poems to writer friends composed along trails in the Rockies, appreciations of the crooked, eternally unraveling beauties of river rapids and of the canoes that cooperate with them. By turns boyish and battle-scarred -- For forty years, one poems says, I have been fifteen -- the voice is this collection is that of a man listening to his life, leaning toward whatever durable good he can come across next.
Johnston, Gordon: - Gordon Johnston is author of the poetry chapbook Gravity's Light Grip (Perkolator Press) and co-author of Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes (Mercer University Press). His poetry collection Scaring the Bears is forthcoming from Mercer University Press in March, 2020. Johnston's poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals and in many anthologies. He also makes clay pages-poems written in clay and wood-fired by Roger Jamison onto stoneware pages. A former daily news reporter, Johnston teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Mercer University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781646624157 |
| ISBN 10 | 1646624157 |
| Title | Durable Goods |
| Author | Gordon Johnston |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Finishing Line Press |
| Year published | 2021-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
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