Penny Johnson

Broschiertes Buch

Hags on Tractors

Beschreibung

In these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver's seat-of a tractor that is-and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge of leading this life amidst a male-dominated field. --------------- "In Hags on Tractors, Penny Johnson's poems enter the land and finger the coloring change of beige mushroom, vermillion tomatoes, evergreen rosemary, fat-thumbed blackberries, magenta holly hocks in her deeply porous study under the unforgiving sky. She ingests this place, [a]s if land can hold still all it burns, buries and brings alive." -Beatrix Gates, author of The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) "Johnson thumbs her nose at tradition, engaging us through a structure which floats and spins and turns in on itself....her poems bring the rural scene to life with all its sights, smells, sounds, tastes and challenges" -Susan Blair, editor of The Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, author of A Howling and What Remains of a Life "The power of these poems is due to the simple fact that Johnson has invented a language using English words that resembles to great effect the nature of trauma, disassociation, sexuality, cars, boys, horses." -Michael Kline, author of When I Was a Twin

Autor

Penny Johnson lives at the base of a mountain with a horde of animals in Central Washington. She and her horse run the farm. Johnson provides glimpses of extraordinary lives that have lost some scaffolding but radiate genuine and quixotic vulnerability. Johnson's writing is visual and tactile. She has been featured poet in literary reviews and a contender in Seattle Poetry Slams. Johnson was the recipient of the Kirkwood Award for Short Fiction through UCLA Extension. She was a resident of Devereux, received her BA from The Evergreen State College, MFA from Goddard College. Both Johnson's novels, Memories of a Female Truck Driver and Double Back, are available from Amazon. She is a contributor in the WA129 anthology with poems previously published in Bellowing Ark, Pawn to Infinity, Spectacles, City Primevil, and Spillway. Johnson has most recently been published in Yakima Coffee House Poets where she won the Tom Pier Prize, Shrub-Steppe Review, and Cirque, A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, with a Pushcart Prize nomination, Cleaver Fall 2023, Honorable Mention judged by Diane Suess and Quartet Journal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Poetry Box
• Seitenzahl: 44
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 111g
• ISBN-13: 9781956285789
• ISBN-10: 1956285784
• Artikelnr.: 72667987