But for Now by Gordon Johnston

But for Now by Gordon Johnston

From Anna's Lovers Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase but for now means among other things making do, as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is more to it than the merely mortal and where it is possible to hear beyond the outmoded clanking of inherited religious vocabularies. These poems find moments of grace in chance occurrences and through a wide range of styles and methods, they choreograph the random casual events of our existence. Northrop Frye famously asked, Where is here? These poems instead ask, When is now? Engaged with worlds of waiting and of doing, with enduring and healing, But for Now celebrates music and noise, speech and silence, and asserts that for all the darkness at the edges, there is something shining at the centre of the painting.

Gordon Johnston lives in Peterborough where he taught poetry for forty years at Trent University.

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ISBN 13	9780773542907
ISBN 10	0773542906
Title	But for Now
Author	Gordon Johnston
Series	Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGill-Queen's University Press
Year published	2013-08-06
Number of pages	102
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