Gods in the Wilderness

In this, her first full-length poetry collection, Caitlin Johnson seeks to demolish the things that would tear her poetic personae apart and align herself with those that would give them power. Yet Johnson also embraces the pain, hoping to transfigure it into something useful for the reader. Taking her cues from religion, mythology, history, and literature, Johnson delves into her own psyche as well as the inner lives of a cast of characters as disparate as goddesses, non-mothers, and blue-collar workers in attempt to plumb the depths of literary possibility.