Shortlisted for the 2015 T
through Jamaica
Grudgings words are a shovel jabbed into the musty earth
Five of his paintings are today in the Tate
sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world
Erosions by John A. Griffin PRE-ORDER Alexander Tvardovsky Shortlisted for the 2015 TErosions is John A. Griffins first full length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death, loss, absence, exile, and a coming into ones powers as one seeks to apprehend the changes wrought by time, epiphany, and departure. Absence, lines, natural forces, spirituality, and extinction are all leitmotifs in the