Now And Then: Selected Longer Poems

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by J. Chester Johnson

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ISBN: 978-1-937943-31-8
Category: Poems, Plays and Aphorisms
Pub Date: January 20, 2017
Binding: Paperback, 278 pages
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The journey through “Now and Then” begins with an interracial murder in Arkansas along the Mississippi River Delta at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and ends in a martyrdom of the German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, at the Flossenburg concentration camp near the end of World War II.

In between, a long dead and fabled father reappears for a delayed conversation with the poet, and a paean resurrects the transformational prophet, Martin Luther King, Jr.; a New York City riot of the 1960s impels the poet into the authenticity of the lower Eastside, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lazarus and Jonathan Daniels chant their way into history; home and exile surprisingly have much more in common than a reader would normally believe.

We invite you to visit the J. Chester Johnson website and learn more about his work.