Download or read book The Swamps That Close written by Tyler Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swamps That Close is a collection of poems deeply rooted in the voice and nature of the American South. These poems view that experience on the long continuum of time from prehistory through rural America to a bristling technological future that reaches far but somehow never quite escapes its primordial urges. Like the frog packed in cool mud and water whose stillness may explode in a crash of predatory death, these poems live on the edge of violence, yet this world is filled with rich smells, sounds, humor, music and hope.