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Hog Island Oysters
Source: Poetry (December 2007).
Biography
Born in Canton, New York, Devin Johnston grew up in Winston-Salem and received his PhD from the University of Chicago.
Johnston is the author of several collections of poetry, including Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Aversions (2004) and Telepathy (2001). His prose writing includes the critical study Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Activities, Jobs & Working, Nature, Animals
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Metaphor
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