The Waiting

Reveals a vigilant young person on a lyric adventure of grief and search. Winner of the 2004 Iowa Poetry Prize.

About the author

Megan Johnson was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Verse, the Colorado Review, Epoch, Interim, and the Antioch Review, among other journals. She teaches at Victoria University in New Zealand. This is her first collection of poetry.

Summary

In a startling and original poetic voice, Megan Johnson in The Waiting reveals a vigilant young person who has suffered an unmentionable loss and who dismantles and reconstitutes lyric modes in a relentless search for solace. A lyric adventure of grief and search, The Waiting reinvents language from raw materials, driven by intense emotional need.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.04.2005
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780877459248
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-924-8
• Pages: 74
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 20.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 130 g
• Series: Iowa Poetry Prize; Iowa Poetry Prize Series; Iowa Poetry Prize; The Iowa Poetry Prize Series