Rants and Raves: Selected and New Prose Poems - Softcover

Johnson, Peter

9781935210061: Rants and Raves: Selected and New Prose Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935210068 ISBN 13: 9781935210061

Publisher: White Pine Press, 2010

"The excitement of prose poetry is that it transgresses the rules to catch a glimpse of what could be called the true life of the imagination."?Charles Simic

"Johnson's clear-eyed explication of our sad, bruised, fallen world becomes a celebration, an elation. Johnson shouts, 'Hallelujah!' in one of his poems. Read Rants and Raves and you'll be shouting it too."?Gary Young

Rants and Raves draws from three previously published volumes and includes a selection of new poetry by this master of the prose poem.

Peter Johnson has published three books of prose poems and three books of fiction. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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About the Author:

Peter Johnson is the founding editor of the Prose Poem: An International Journal and in addition to his three books of prose poems he is the author of I'm A Man, a book of short stories also published by White Pine Press. Raised in Buffalo, NY he currently teaches at Providence College in Providence, R.I.

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"These are poems of everyday miracles. The excitement of prose poetry is that it transgresses the rules to catch a glimpse of what could be called the true life of the imagination. This is what Peter Johnson gives us. What more could we ask of a book of p

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