Like the 'page turned down to make another / page,' Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems-and most powerful work to date-Jim Johnstone establishes himself as an exquisite observer of decay, both physical and spiritual. This is a universe where man resembles 'the final / generation of a species branching / towards an in-between.' Johnstone's poetry blurs past and present, private and public in a kinet