false 30321586 166309 3545188 0892553421 9780892553426 6 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3545188.A_Metaphorical_God_Poems 4.83 18 "Dazzling....She writes with Milton open at her elbow but with the real dirt of a real Utah under her fingertips."—The Yale Review

No poet writing today confronts the perplexities of the divine with more pizzazz than Kimberly Johnson. In A Metaphorical God, Johnson showcases her gifts for mining language for its hidden gems and its gospel ("my tongue is a fovent choir, / a cloven fire"), using what she unearths to delve deep into mysteries both epistemological and holy.]]> 205644 4.66 32 8 2008 5 0 false Sat Aug 16 13:46:16 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 13:46:24 -0700 2008