[PW] Re: A.E. Johnson

[John P. Dyson]

You might try _Come Closer: Selected Poems of A. E. Johnson_. There are 
four copies held in various NY libraries according to WorldCat.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University


Quoting Deb Bruce <bruced at hartwick.edu>:

> Hi Womb at ts,
> I have a patron looking for a poem she thinks is called "Recovery" by
> Albert Edward Johnson.  He was poet-in-residence at Syracuse University
> in 1948-1949, and I assume that this is something she heard him recite
> then.  She says "I don't known any lines verbatim; I know this: it is a
> sonnet; the first part describes a snow-laden evergreen tree. When a
> small bird lights on the tip of a branch, it rebalances and flings off
> its snow burden. The second part follows logically."  I have checked
> with Syracuse, who also did a quick archive check for me, and Brown
> University, which had some titles that Syracuse didn't have.  Several
> Yahoo! searches didn't turn out anything, either.  Any thoughts on where
> to look next?
> Thanks,
> Deb Bruce
> Librarian
> Hartwick College
> Oneonta, New York
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