Poetry. Beginning and ending with pieces titled Home, and moving through, among many other places, Key West, Cairo, Fiesole, Istanbul, Tex-Mex and Sarajevo, this collection of 30 prose-poems, which are at times happily indistinguishable from short-short stories, chronicles a love affair with Gigi through astonishingly wide-ranging world travels. LOVE POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM is a poet's atlas. And as coincidence would have it, it happens to be exactly the right tour guide. (--Russell Edson) In Paris, a white poodle named Gigi begs for a bone; in Greenland we learn that in Notre Dame Gigi made a pass at her wrist with a razo; in Berlin we are privy to the cry, Heal me, Doctor Gigi! As changeable as the landscape, as chameleon-like as Gigi herself, these poems are a delight of wanderlust and wit. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Author Hometown: PROVIDENCE, RI USA



About the author: Peter Johnson was born and reared in Buffalo, New York. He teaches creative writing and children's literature at Providence College and is editor of THE BEST OF THE PROSE POEM: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL. His prose poems and fiction have appeared in Field, DENVER QUARTERLY, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, North Dakota Quarterly, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, Beloit Fiction Journal, and other magazines. His books include RANTS AND RAVES: SELECTED AND NEW PROSE POEMS (White Pine Press, 2010), EDUARDO & I (White Pine Press, 2006), I'M A MAN (White Pine Press, 2003) and MIRACLES & MORTIFICATIONS (White Pine Press, 2001), winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets.