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January 16, 2008
Manly Johnson, '46
Holding Out for What Is: New & Selected Poems, 2006.
The book: This collection explores the nature of friendship and memory, the ways in which the attachments of the present and the images of the past reveal beliefs that have shaped our lives. The book interweaves more than three dozen new poems with the author's poems from previously published volumes and his archives.
The author: Manly Johnson has published poems, reviews and translations in a variety of anthologies, journals and small magazines. He has taught at U-M, Johns Hopkins, Williams College and the University of Tulsa. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife, Francine Leffler Ringold.
Posted by tobiaslw at January 16, 2008 03:29 PM