JESSICA E. JOHNSON
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JESSICA E. JOHNSON

In Absolutes We Seek Each Other

Finalist for a 2014 Oregon Book Award

For a moment, reader, as you orient yourself in one of Jessica Johnson’s poems, you might classify a scene as quiet and scientific, or moody, wet, and metrical; then a shift and, god, it’s luminous and grief-struck and haunting and it’s yours.  The linked poems in the book’s first section are a feat of beauty: the settings for this memory of transformation and lost innocence are a greenhouse, DNA lab, fish hatchery, swimming pool, and slant house, each mysterious and glimmering. The second section of ocean dwellers, anatomies, and sea-soaked lyrics is equally remarkable. Jessica Johnson is a true discovery.  
-Kathleen Flenniken
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