R. K. Johnston is an international poet recognized in the field of cultural integration, creativity, and the unity of knowledge.
His fourth book of poetry, Dissonance and Consonance, is a new venture in reducing the poem to its bare limits without missing the point. As does much true art, it makes demands of the viewer, listener, reader. These poems demand attention from the heart of the reader and are well worth paying it.
Roy K. Johnston melds his experience as a musician, as a student of philosophies and literature, and as an educator into this fourth collection of his poetry. The objective of this collection is to keep major issues (life, war, nature, peace) suspended in front of us through poetry and to show the difficulty in finding resolutions--or not.
He claims that we have twelve senses, not just five or six. When we read these lyrical meditations on the wandering circles of life, we can find some of the senses he reaches toward in this electromagnetic field we call home.
Johnston's poems in this collection follow a wandering circle that includes meditations on the mysteries of nature in his back yard such as “Galls” to the mysteries of human love in “Anniversary Adagio”.
He is anything but didactic as he searches the nature of truth. It behooves us to lie down with each poem from this "Country Gentleman" and let it lead us into our own spiritual mysteries.
- Evelyn Cole - Poet and Writer
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R. K. Johnston’s poetry is infused with the music and rhythm of a career classical and jazz performer. He has been recognized nationally in the field of cultural integration and creativity.
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