Devin Johnston – författare

The poems in Devin Johnston's "Traveler" cross great distances, from the Red Hills of Kansas to the Rough Bounds of the Scottish Highlands, following weather patterns, bird migrations, and ocean voyages. Less literally, these poems move through translations and protean transformations. Their subjects are often next to nothing in several senses: cloud shadows racing across a valley before dusk, the predawn expectation of a child's birth, or the static-electric charge of clothing fabric. Throughout, Johnston offers vivid glimpses of the phenomenal world.

While the poems in this collection assay a very broad range of subjects, all of them demonstrate an awareness of what enormous challenges constitute the turning toward -- or away from -- the many faces of experience.

Johnston's third book of poetry returns ad fontes: to sources in Greek and Latin, secret derivations, wellsprings of feelings and forces of nature. Sonically alert, these poems attend to a world with restless curiosity.