Scaring the Bears (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780881467796)

This is a strong collection--long anticipated and a pleasure to have in hand. --Judson Mitcham, Georgia Poet Laureate (2012-2019). This debut collection braids together published and new poems into a lyrical album quilt of stories and scenes. Wryly funny, earthy, susceptible to river shoals, hymns, old tools, and favorite shirts, these poems refuse to waste their troubles. They talk back to the dangers along the trail. The potential blessings and losses in fathering, in having sick friends, in acts of faith, in the work of marriage, and in risking everything from minor surgery to gutting trout in grizzly country give these poems tension, drama, and a wry, grateful humanity. The voice, by turns funny, elegiac, lonesome, and lusty, is a voice of experience, susceptible to the worn, found beauties of cypress knees, inherited tools, spider hearts, and tomatoes ripening on a windowsill. This collection finds courage in clear, careful description. These poems make good company.

Author: Gordon Johnston
ISBN-10: 0881467790
ISBN-13: 9780881467796
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2021
Pages: 74
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d