Fatal
Kimberly Johnson

In Fatal, her most personal collection yet, Kimberly Johnson reflects on ways in which we are imperiled, this life dealing out even in its “small and common” events so many shocks and wounds that we are marked by our having lived it. These poems explore our enduring commitment to care for our small, costly holdings—all those vital, fatal loves that make us vulnerable—and contemplates the question of how we can bear the caring, knowing the risk.

“In poems full of taut, lavish language, Fatal examines how we live poised between terror and delight, stasis and transformation, ever bewildered by how even the simplest objects and events can change everything in instant.”
—Paisley Rekdal

“This is a brilliant book of well-wrought lines crafted in the absolutely original way for which Kimberly Johnson has become known and admired. I love these poems.”
—Jericho Brown

Kimberly Johnson is the author of Uncommon Prayer, A Metaphorical God, and Leviathan with a Hook. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Tanner Humanities Center, among others, she lives and teaches in Utah.

Trade Paperback / $15.95 (Can $21.50) / ISBN 978-0-89255-559-8 / 96 pages / Poetry