Aversions.Aversions Devin Johnston Omnidawn Publishing 1632 Elm Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805-1614 1890650161 $14.95 1-800-792-4957 www.omnidawn.com The poetry by Devin Johnston addresses the personal challenges of turning toward (or away from) human experience. By turns enigmatic en·ig·mat·ic or en·ig·mat·i·cal adj. Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling: a professor's enigmatic grading system. See Synonyms at ambiguous. , insightful, and lyrical lyr·i·cal adj. 1. a. Expressing deep personal emotion or observations: a dancer's lyrical performance; a lyrical passage in his autobiography. b. , Aversions offers a body of poetry that is subtle and almost visual in its passionate employment of language. Dark Wood: Dashing dash·ing adj. 1. Audacious and gallant; spirited. 2. Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable. through the station/in the final collapse/of time, I'm already dead.//It is all one where I begin:/at Niagara, where we never were,/or the Casentino, Dante's wood, in which/the tangled limber of Guelphus/lay thick as leaves/that strow v. t. 1. Same as Strew. [ imp. os> r>; p. p. os> r> or Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. - Milton. the brooks.//Beneath a canopy of lime/which darkens the Dawoo's/windshield, we glide/through dictionaries/in search of moufloun.//One week married: if, then. Wherever I start, I'm lost to the language/and still putting paper to pen. |
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