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by James B. Johnston (Author)
Poems and essays on leaving Ireland and living in North America.
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James Johnston's poems and essays explore the varied and complicated implications of exile: the yearning for home ground and its attendant values of family, memory, connection. Through his chosen separation from his beloved Ireland, Johnston discovers the depth and range of his ties to place and people. To have chosen exile is to be keenly on the edge of what could have been.