Feeding the Animals

By Jodi Ann Johnson

"Jodi Johnson writes like an Angel in love with the world. She knows the risk of being alive and alert, and makes every encounter a perilous discovery. For Johnson a horseback ride is an interior journey illuminated by the stunning accuracy of her vision."

--Benjamin Saltman

"Feeding the Animals is a first book of poems filled with surprising graceful turns. The landscape of the poems teem with animals-birds horses-real creatures who are also figures in a personal mythology emboldened by the author's passion, recorded with a keen observer's eye. This felicitous combination of passion and accuracy yields, in poem after poem, an arresting new voice."

--Carol Muske

"I love the thing-richness of these poems: a chalk horse's white spine, a red beet-stem, a mattress cover swimming with mermaids. In poems as elegant as dressage, as intuitive as a bareback ride, Jodi Johnson's language renews the world- the troubling beauty that takes our hearts."

--Angela Ball, Mississippi Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597092606
• ISBN13: 9781597092609
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"