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Title: Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026
Author: Devin Johnston
ISBN: 9780374608835
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:
evince no difference between
giving and taking, all their powers
dispersed unseen beyond a stile
that your wants might for a little while
be mine, and open to the light.
Bright Thorn, distilling Devin Johnston's work across a quarter century and seven books, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through the calm measured feeling and formal intelligence of his verse. Historical, philosophical, closely observational, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense, whose eye, cast discerningly over the landscape, is affectionate yet icily clear.
Author: Devin Johnston
ISBN: 9780374608835
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:
The selected poems of Devin Johnston, a poet who can "change the way you breathe" (Maureen N. McLane).
Why call this plant a weed? Some flowersevince no difference between
giving and taking, all their powers
dispersed unseen beyond a stile
that your wants might for a little while
be mine, and open to the light.
Bright Thorn, distilling Devin Johnston's work across a quarter century and seven books, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through the calm measured feeling and formal intelligence of his verse. Historical, philosophical, closely observational, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense, whose eye, cast discerningly over the landscape, is affectionate yet icily clear.
