Poetry. RANTS AND RAVES draws from three previously published volumes and includes a selection of new poetry by this master of the prose poem. "The excitement of prose poetry is that it transgresses the rules to catch a glimpse of what could be called the true life of the imagination"--Charles Simic. "Johnson's clear-eyed explication of our sad, bruised, fallen world becomes a celebration, an elation. Johnson shouts, 'Hallelujah!' in one of his poems. Read RANTS AND RAVES and you'll be shouting it too"--Gary Young.

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

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.

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