The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom

By Michael Lee Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson is a freelance writer and poet, who created over 320 poems published in over 123 journals and online publications to date. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc and Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers: pw.org/directory. He has been published in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nigeria, Fiji, India, and the United Kingdom.

The Lost American is about one man's journey into exile over the Vietnam War many years ago, his struggle, his survival, his road to recovery and strength manifesting itself through his prose and poems. Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives with his best friend, Nikki, the cat, and is content to be living in a small suburb of Chicago. His first chapbook of poems and prose is available for purchase and download at: http: //www.lulu.com/content/936633.

Recent publications: The Orange Room Review, Bolts of Silk (UK), Chantarelle's Notebook, The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine, Poetry Cemetery, Official Site of Laura Hird, The Centrifugal Eye, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Scorched Earth Publishing, Ken*Again, Miller's Pond, A Southern Journal, Apollo's Lyre, Fresh On Line Literary Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Zygote In My Coffee, Pens On Fire, Black Biro (Africa), Sage Of Consciousness, Prose Toad, Literary Ezine, Cosmopsis Quarterly (Book contributor), Mississippi Crow, New Graffiti, Poetry Super Highway, Ink Sweat & Tears, Taj Mahal Review, Hammered Out (Canada), Stellar Showcase Journal, Aboveground testing, and many others. Published in United States, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, India, and United Kingdom. Poets would be nothing without small presses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595460917
• ISBN13: 9780595460915
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"