The book explores the profound impact of aversion and the act of turning away, delving into the chilling implications of such choices. It examines how these decisions can lead to both irreversible and unpredictable outcomes, prompting readers to reflect on the weight of their actions and the moral complexities involved. Through thought-provoking insights, the narrative challenges the audience to confront the consequences of avoidance in various aspects of life.
Blending urban life with natural observation, the book explores the connections between culture and nature, as well as the relationships between humans and animals. Devin Johnston's writing reflects a modern-day Thoreau, inviting readers to contemplate the complexities of coexistence in a contemporary setting.
The seventh book of poems from Devin Johnston, a poet who can "change the way you breathe" (Maureen N. McLane). Dragons is a sonorous, sensual collection of poems from Devin Johnston, “one of the finest craftsmen of verse we have” (Michael Autrey, Booklist). Attentive to both the physical world and our place within it, his arresting images of nature and human life ring with quiet power. An elegy for a ten-year-old hen; a fourth grader seeing a fox, his “fur waistcoat immaculate”; the sound of neighbors arguing set against the “pallid flames” of the setting sun. The scenes that Johnston presents come together to form a resonant, restrained meditation on life’s journey and “the feeling of time.”