THE VEIL.

Johnson, Denis.

ISBN 10: 0394541278 / ISBN 13: 9780394541273

Published by NY: KNOPF. 1987, 1987

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First Edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (Short red remainder mark on top edge. Edges faintly foxed. ) Small cloth issue. Poetry. (B). Bookseller Inventory # 17516

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE VEIL.

Publisher: NY: KNOPF. 1987

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition:Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

A collection of poems of grief, regret, nightmare, acceptance, redemption, and the dark recesses of the soul

From Library Journal:

Having established himself as a fiction writer by publishing three novels in five years, Johnson returns to poetry with his first collection since The Incognito Lounge ( LJ 4/1/82), entering again a personal Twilight Zone of all-night diners, monasteries, and museums inhabited by "the sad people of space" who daily suffer "the terror/ of being just one personone chance, one set of days." Like that of his contemporary Lawrence Raab, Johnson's style stems directly from the Mark Strand school of late-show creepiness, his alienated narrators talking to themselves in landscapes of darkness and absence. But Johnson's loose, prosaic constructs lack resonance, and though they sometimes amuse and surprise, one detects a glibness that belies the nightmare. It's all just too chic to be true. Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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