Someday Johnson Creek

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In this debut poetry collection Joshua Doležal traces one summer as a ranger in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of north Idaho where trail maintenance provides a touchstone for childhood American history and masculinity.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Someday Johnson Creek </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>takes its name from a real place and also honors Connie Saylor Johnson who devoted more than forty years to wilderness conservation. Doležal worked with Johnson for several summers while studying poetry and creative nonfiction with Ted Kooser at the University of Nebraska. Poems in this volume first appeared in magazines such as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hudson Review</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Beloit Poetry Journal</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>RATTLE</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Third Coast</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p>