Jim Johnstone
King of Terrors
King of Terrors
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The King of Terrors is a collection of poetry by Jim Johnstone that explores the experience of living with illness, the power of language, and the connections between the natural world and the human experience. The poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, and offer a form of redemption and hope for those who are sick.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: Coach House Books
CBC Books has compiled a list of Canadian poetry collections to watch for in Fall 2023. The King of Terrors, written by Jim Johnstone after a brain tumor diagnosis, is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships, and immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone's poems oscillate between the personal and the public, the clinical and the spiritual, so we are never quite sure what we are seeing, no matter how familiar.
There is a moving, fierce intensity to The King of Terrors. Jim Johnstone knowingly reminds us that betrayals of the body are also betrayals of language, "each bloody / mouthful a sentence fragment." These are lines of admission, ambition, and harrowing truth, and Johnstone, despite a future only as certain as the body it inhabits, offers a form of redemption, for the fortitude of the sick, for poetry itself. - Randall Mann, author of Deal: New and Selected Poems
The King of Terrors is a luminous meditation on the otherworld of illness and treatment, contemplating the mysteries of death and the frontiers of mind and body with sharp clarity and radical vulnerability. These mesmerizing, urgent poems admit us not only to waiting rooms and brain scans, but also to the intimate fears that accompany the estranging experience of being unwell, or, as the poet says, living between / age and agency.
Haunting, stark, and lyrical, The King of Terrors is charged, as all the best poetry is, with the shock of the mortal. - Sarah Holland-Batt, author of The Jaguar
Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781552454701
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