Flight Songs - by Stacey C Johnson (Paperback)

About the Book

A polyvocal prayer of collective hope in the face of grief, song against silencing, and restoration against the destruction of life by the engines of empire.

Book Synopsis

The collective voice of dispossessed people sings through the aftermath of exile into restoration. Communal grief transcends into enduring hope of a vision in which the united voices of silenced peoples everywhere reach a volume vast and resonant enough to curve the long moral arc of the universe in the direction of restoration.

Review Quotes

The world in Stacey C. Johnson's new collection Flight Songs is filled with voices demanding to be heard: "Our voices are what we raise because we have found no other / way yet, to call attention to those forever without them, / who died without-." Each song is one of endurance, hope and restoration where "buried songs emerged / from the dust of the husks."

-Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University