Bøger af Sonja Johanson

In Sonja Johanson's new collection, the burgeoning world, the natural and human worlds mingle in gorgeous, often unsettling ways. From lush to bare, the landscape she presents us with is so intertwined with and impacted by our actions that we realize the two have always been one. Johanson paints quietly self-assured portraits of what seems, on the surface, outside us. But nothing is truly outside us. "If I stretched out my hand / would it raise a tidal bore / would it empty reservoirs". Imaginative, lucid, haunting, the burgeoning world is a heartfelt reflection on recognizing light as it filters down through "branches, brachia, arms" to splay across our troubled faces, to plant "messages in the soil". --John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another

all those ragged scars is one woman's journey navigating what it means to be female during the turn of the 20th century. What does it mean to grow up at the intersection of poverty and conservatism, while watching the media portray women as independent and empowered? What does it mean to navigate the landscape of feminism without signposts? What are the ramifications of embracing sexuality as power? How do we reconcile the struggle to be both what our families need and expect, and also what we believe ourselves to be?