Previous praise for Jonathan Johnson’s poetry:

"Jonathan Johnson’s poems bristle with narrative but their great strength lies in their physicality. Reading this book, you find yourself in a world rich in texture, raw with meaning, vastly more immediate and American than the Internet, addressed by a voice you learn to trust."

Adrianne Rich on Mastodon, 80% Complete

Previous praise for Jonathan Johnson’s poetry:
"Johnson’s Mastodon, 80% Complete is fresh, tough, and stimulating, full of 'thinginess,' textural concretia, a specific density that carries the reader along as a participant, whether willing or not. It is fascinating and original work."

Jim Harrison

Previous praise for Jonathan Johnson’s poetry:

"Panoramic in sweep and tender in spirit, these poems whirl us across many American landscapes and zoom us into many lives—from Wyatt Earp’s wife’s to that of a grieving son. Johnson is a generous pathologist of the human heart who is careful to leave its mystery intact."

Lucia Perillo on In the Land We Imagined Ourselves

Previous praise for Jonathan Johnson’s poetry:

"I love the blasting, rock and roll energy in Jonathan Johnson’s poetry. . . . Though it is tinged with sorrow, In the Land We Imagined Ourselves makes me glad of heart—makes me, in Johnson’s better words, 'happy to be hungry in the oh so cinematic air.'”

Campbell McGrath

Previous praise for Jonathan Johnson’s poetry:
"I prize Jonathan Johnson’s stunning new collection, In the Land We Imagined Ourselves, and I believe in the lives found here."

William Olsen