The title of Devin Johnston’s fourth book of poems, Traveler, might suggest that the work will offer some series of narratives about moving from place to place. To be sure, the poems are generated by specific sites, from the Scottish Highlands to the American midlands. Yet, what characterizes these poems is an imagistic intensity and precision that evokes the process of engaged concentration, particularly in regard to the natural world.
Author Archives: Richard Deming
Richard Deming is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008), and he regularly contributes to such magazines as Artforum and The Boston Review. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America