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“is not an idyllic poet, but a voice that warns against all that which threatens human joy. The poems, translated by Grinde, are splendid.”-Choice ISBN 1-877727-33-4 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 221 pages · $15.00 paper
Limited cloth edition of 50 signed by both poet and translator $30.00
“as an introduction for general readers to the work of a major 20th- century writer.” -Choice ISBN 0-934834-72-5 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 70 pages · $9.00 paper
“Johnson‘collection holds not only the spirit and sensuous quality of Alabama, but also the concrete strengths of Brooklyn. These memorable poems are sturdy reminders of what life in contemporary America is.”—Maurice Kenny Jacqueline Joan Johnson has been awarded the Gregory Millard Fellowship for the New York Foundation for the Arts and Mid-Atlantic Writers Association Creative Writing Award in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. She is th e author of Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power for children and contributed to UpSouth: African American Migration and Streetlights: Illuminating Black Urban Tales.
ISBN 1-877727-58-X ·5.5x8.5 ·80 pages ·$12.00 paper
The colorful characters who populate these stories Peter Johnson is the founder and editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal. His books of prose poetry include Pretty Happy and Miracles & Mortifications, the latter of which won the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, he currently teaches at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. "Peter Johnson's prose poems in Miracles &
Mortifications were what one would hope for from a book that won
the James Laughlin Award-energetically inventive, surrealistically
funny, and also enormously entertaining. I'm A Man, Johnson's
new book of stories
“cast of characters...are family members. What we remember of our childhoods are seemingly magical acts by our parents and siblings, acts that do not explain themselves and belong to the realm of myth. Johnson‘prose poems return us to that world where our imagination was the hero setting out almost daily on a series of fabulous adventures under the dining room table, which, we might say, rests on the shaky legs of common sense.”- Charles Simic
Peter Johnson Long neglected or scoffed at by poetry purists, the prose poem is now taking its rightful place as a distinct and accepted genre in American letters. Johnson’s work as editor of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, did much to legitimatize this genre. This book, his second collection of prose poetry, is filled with the mystery, humor, and pathos that make this form so appealing and so accessible. Peter Johnson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife and son. He teaches at Providence College. Also Available by Peter Johnson: Pretty Happy! $12.00, 1-877727-75-X Poetry 6 x 9 72 pages $14.95 1-893996-18-2
Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal: The Best of the Prose Poem Journal Edited by Peter Johnson Russell Edson refers to the prose poem as “A cast-iron aeroplane that can actually fly, mainly because its pilot does not care if it does or not.” Journal editor since its inception in 1992, Peter Johnson here selects work by well-known poets such as Simic, Bly, Ignatow, Matthews, Mistral, Shihab Nye, Tate, and Waldrop, as well as work by emerging writers, from all journal volumes. Since its inception in 1992, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, has published work which even the writers themselves cannot define without resorting to metaphor. Russell Edson likens prose poems to "cast-iron aeroplanes that can actually fly," while Charles Simic states that writing them is like "trying to catch a fly in a dark room. The fly probably isn’t even there...you keep tripping over and bumping into things in hot pursuit." Nonetheless, Johnson knows a prose poem when he reads one. Better still, he recognizes a good one and has included many of them here. Poets include Edson, Simic, Robert Bly, Louis Jenkins, Kim Addonizio, David Ignatow, James Tate, and many others, both well-known and emerging. Peter Johnson lives in Rhode Island where he teaches at Providence College. Poetry Anthology 6 x 9 240 pages $15.00 1-893996-08-5
Prose Poetry / Cultural Studies A selection of work by three of the fathers of prose
poetry, the French writers Max Jacob, Jean Follain, and Francis
Ponge. Baudelaire laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre
in the 19th century; these poets expanded the concept in the first
half of the 20th century. Jacob (1876-1944) was a writer of surrealist
cubist fables, Ponge (1899-1988) was a master of the language
of things, and Follain (1903-1971) merged the everyday with the
historical to create a world rich in anniversaries. Baudelaire
laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre in the 19th century,
but it wasn’t until the avant garde movement in the first
half of the 20th century that the prose poem began a widespread
emergence on the international scene. The three poets in this
volume were major factors in this emergence and lead us to the
strong and growing interest in the genre that we find so prevalent
at the beginning of the 21st century. 6 x 9 192 pages $17.00 1-893996-17-4
Poetry/Asian Studies This major anthology presents one hundred poems drawn form a tradition spanning one thousand years of Korean poets writing in Classic Chinese. Kim Joh-gil captures the elegant simplicity and emotional complexity of the originals in three stunning translations. Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars, and monks. This work became an integral part of Korean literary tradition. Among the Flowering Reeds, which introduces this important poetic tradition to the English-speaking audience, includes 100 poems spanning more than 1,000 years. Lovers of Chinese and Japanese poetry will delight in these translations, which capture both the elegant simplicity and the emotional complexity of the originals. Kim Jong-gilis a Professor Emeritus of English at Korea University in Seoul and is a member of the Korean Academy of Arts. His works of translation <I>include The Snow Falling on Chagall’s Village: Poems of Kim Ch’un-Su. He is presently completing an anthology of modern Korean poetry. Poetry Anthology Cultural Studies Korean Voices
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Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef Forty poems and one essay by the left-wing schizophrenic Hungarian poet who committed suicide by throwing himself under a train. "I have long thought of Attila Jozsef as one
of the great poets of the century’s tragic realist whose
work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life
to which history condemned him. These new translations will be
welcomed." 5.5 x 8.5 80 pages $14.00 1-893996-00-X
Vertical Poetry: Poems by Roberto Juarroz “much modern poetry seems disturbingly disjointed, Juarroz’s glides and swirls, doubles back on itself and surges forth, always maintaining a sense of cohesiveness.”-Américas ISBN 1-877727-08-3 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 118 pages · $11.00 paper
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Night Open:
Poems by Rolf Jacobsen 
Winner,
1997 White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Zoo
& Cathedral
Pretty
Happy 
Miracles
& Mortifications 
Perched
on Nothing’s Branch 