Desk on the Sea

Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can transform suffering into what John Keats called "soul-making, Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.

About the author

Jonathan Johnson's previous works include the poetry books May Is an Island; Mastodon, 80% Complete; and In the Land We Imagined Ourselves; the memoir Hannah and the Mountain; and the play Ode. His poems have been published widely in magazines, anthologized in Best American Poetry, and read on NPR.

Summary

This memoir begins four years after poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in Lake Superior and moved with family into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder of each new day.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Johnson
• Publisher: WAYNE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780814346655
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-4665-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Made in Michigan Writers; Made in Michigan Writers; Made in Michigan Writers Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales