Jesus son denis5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson can’t shorten the bleakest winter in Little Village memory, but as he writes in his early poem “The White Fires of Venus,” he may help you understand that “The remedy for loneliness is in learning to admit solitude as one admits the bayonet: gracefully, now that already it pierces the heart. These events are free and open to the public, but seating at the Dey House is limited. at the Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House. ![]() There will also be a reading of his plays and monologues on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m. The author will be reading selections from his fiction on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. ![]() at the Workshop’s Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House. There is a Q&A with Johnson Wednesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. But we suspect the Workshop grad (1974), best known for his short-story collection Jesus’ Son (1992) and his apocalypse-then Vietnam War era novel Tree of Smoke (2007), as well as over four decades of precise and other-worldly verse revered by poets from Manila to Marshalltown, is here to lift the veil, if only for a moment, for those of us too worn down by winter to care what’s beyond it. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson Paperback, 192 pages List Price: 12.00 Car Crash While Hitchhiking A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping.A Cherokee filled with. According to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist, short-story guru and award-winning novelist Denis Johnson has returned this year as a writer-in-residence to interact with undergraduate writers and the wider community. ![]()
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