But for Now

by Gordon Johnston

From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is more to it than the merely mortal and where it is possible to hear beyond the outmoded clanking of inherited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773542906
• ISBN13: 9780773542907
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 7.3"