Flight Songs

Stacey C. Johnson is a lifetime educator and student in the perception of mystery. Her work centers around cycles of destruction and renewal and her primary obsessions revolve around the cultivation of hope against the possibility of despair, particularly relevant in an age of mechanized destruction. Flight Songs emerges from this work. This polyvocal collection highlights voices from the margins-neglected, abused, surveilled, dispossessed, and unseen-and resonates with a transcultural pulse to expand familiar notions of human struggle into one that expands to encompass a mythical narrative of the living and the dead in this pivotal moment.