Without a Witness

by Stella Johnston and Stella Johnson

Book Overview

Stella Johnston's poems in Without a Witness invite the reader into widely different places, from the nightmarish landscape of a morphine hallucination, to the last few moments of a Gary Cooper western, to the bedside of a dying Roman emperor in a field tent in Persia. The acute perception--whether one of pain, joy, grief, remorse, or relief--figures in every poem's attempt to hold onto something essential. At times, moments of loss become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033439
• ISBN13: 9781570033438
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"