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Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and even more so ourselves. From a mosaic of coffee cups, dinner engagements, razors, walks around his city, and the wider realm of nature, the poet continually asks to what degree our lives can be understood, our joys engaged with, and our sorrows mitigated. In a voice that is at once contemporary and yet almost primal, these poems seek an affinity with the natural world, the passing of history, and the deepness and breadth of ancestry; they do not question the mystery of life but ask rather how we have become separated from and might return to a more aware place within the frame of it. These are poems rich with metaphor and music but also direct in their voice. Johnson exhibits a poetic tradition that rather than employing academic allusions and direct personal statements remains elusive in its use of the poetic I. The reader is never certain if they are reading about the poet, their friends, or themselves.
"In his debut collection, Christopher J Johnson lasers into the maze of the self, 'little but stickish bones, a scarecrow / puffed-up w/ rags, smoking at the mouth.' There s a little bit of the Modernist in Johnson s work: he offers us inward lyrics, full of psycho-philosophic intensity, with a Poundian sense of the literary past informing every poem. His images are rich, and his sounds are lush and lodge in the ear, as when he writes, 'godlet ants in their Herculean tasks / &the porcupines smooth in their wombs.' Johnson sounds like no one else writing today. His gift is lyric, pure, and fine." — Dana Levin
"Rooted in a Whitmanic vision where 'there is separation in nothing / but the minds of men,' the speaker in these poems broods, probes, and deepens the mystery of existence. Some of these poems unfold slowly 'like a bruise on the sky’s face,' while others snap with visual precision, 'The moth floundered in the warm dust / while the black widow boxed the locust.' Christopher J Johnson’s &luckier is a book of marvels." — Arthur Sze
"I was so relieved to like this poetry." — Cathy Garcia