Ghost river
Johnson, Kris2023
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Total copies: 1
Kris Johnson's first collection presents a lyrical and intimate portrait of America's Pacific Northwest, in which wilderness and home are interwoven. Its central sequence reimagines this landscape from the perspective of the British explorer, George Vancouver. These poems of loss and renewal explore what it is to be home. Ghost River invites readers to stare down blue-mouthed crevasses, venture into old growth forests, and peer beneath the floorboards of ancestral homesteads. In this lyrical and intimate portrait of America's Pacific Northwest, wilderness and home are interwoven. But this is not Arcadia. Deep time is punctured by strip malls and freeways, wildfires and dams. Questioning the influence of the past on the present, the central sequence reimagines this landscape from the perspective of the British explorer, George Vancouver, who charted its waterways on an expedition to locate the illusive Northwest Passage. In their passage between America and England and the terrain of early motherhood, these poems of loss and renewal explore what it is to be home. Born and raised in America's Washington state, Kris Johnson moved to the UK in 2007. Ghost River is her first book-length collection.
Main title:
Ghost river / Kris Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Kris, author
Work:
Imprint:
Hexham : Bloodaxe Books, 2023.
Collation:
72 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
11 Bodies of Water13 Rainier14 Lake Americana15 Yellow Jackets16 Skinny Dip17 The Desiccation19 What I meant when I said goodnight20 The Doe22 He Is Risen23 Nisqually Delta Blue24 Ghost River27 Blue-- PASSAGE35 Theoretical Geographers36 V is for Vancouver37 The principled process of deduction38 Church39 Vancouver, dreaming40 Pseudotsuga menziesii41 Kulshan42 Rainier43 Having considered with impartiality the excellencies & de?ciencies of the land44 The burial rituals of the inhabitants45 In the name of, and for, His Britannic Majesty, His Heirs and successors46 Your America47 Passage48 The death of George Vancouver49 I dream I am held50 Indivisible51 In the Discovery sloop of war52 George Vancouver, you are not my father-- 55 Myth56 We Have Kissed the Four-legged Gods Goodnight57 Lunar Distances59 Corona60 Cottonwood61 The Time of Lace62 American Mustard63 Cast of an Irish Deer64 None of us is where we ought to be65 As ash falls on my mother's garden66 What you hold67 Tectonics68 Tahoma69 Northwest Passage71 Gather-- 72 Notes
ISBN:
9781780376479 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92
LC class:
PR6110
Language:
English
BRN:
634826