Harold Johnson's Citizenship is a down-to-earth good read. These accomplished poems are built on hard-earned wisdom, rich with human situations every reader can recognize as his or her own. Johnson teaches us how to comprehend our lives through the close-up lens of everyday particulars and the long-view lens of global and historical concerns. He reminds us that we've been given the gift of citizenship in a diverse and miraculous world where, amidst tragedy and conflict, compassion triumphs. 'Out of the heart of the neighborhood,' Johnson writes, 'music from / the Good Humor van rises, rolling this way.' -- Lowell Jaeger,author of How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past, editor of New Poets of the American West.

Citizenship

Harold L. Johnson

Many Voices Press

In a poem from Harold Johnson's Citizenship, the speaker says, . . . in the National Gallery I stared (again, with vague hope of riddling the ambiguity of my citizenship) at the salmon-colored faces of the first few presidents . . . In Article.II., Johnson's speaker returns in longer thought to the American presidency: voices from a shattering African-American historical experience confront the institution and get into the faces of one through forty-four.

Article.II. - The Gallery

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Citizenship

Article.II. - The Gallery