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Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world.And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they might well be interchangeable. Where violence and poverty and moral transgression go unchecked, even unnoticed. A world of such wild, rocketing energy that, grasping it, anything at all is possible.Whether traveling through war-ravaged Liberia, mingling with the crowds at a Christian Biker rally, exploring his own authority issues through the lens of this nation's militia groups, or attempting to unearth his inner resources while mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska, Johnson writes with a mixture of humility and humorous candor that is everywhere present.With the breathtaking and often haunting lyricism for which his work is renowned, Johnson considers in these pieces our need for transcendence. And, as readers of his previous work know, Johnson's path to consecration frequently requires a limning of the darkest abyss. If the path to knowledge lies in experience, Seek is a fascinating record of Johnson's profoundly moving pilgrimage.

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About the Author

Denis Johnson is the author of The Name of the World, Already Dead, Jesus' Son, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, and Angels. His poetry has been collected in the volume The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.

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Product details

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 19, 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0060930470

ISBN-13: 978-0060930479

Product Dimensions:

5.3 x 0.6 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

17 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#172,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

In the fiction of his that I have read Denis Johnson is such a splendid writer, with such a distinctive voice, that I was curious to read his non-fiction -- more properly, perhaps, his "journalism" -- as contained in SEEK. The pieces are somewhat uneven in quality and effect, but here too Johnson's prose is (often) scintillating -- reason in and of itself to read these pieces though most are now about twenty-five years old.There are thirteen pieces. The three best report on insane violence and mayhem in Africa -- two on the Civil War in Liberia (circa early 1990s) and the third on Somalia around the time of the withdrawal of United Nations forces (1995). Other subjects include a Rainbow Gathering in the Ochoco National Forest (mid-1990s); the Eagle Mountain Motorcycle Rally near Fort Worth, catering to "Bikers for Jesus"; the search in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the fugitive terrorist bomber Eric Robert Rudolph; and covering the First Gulf War from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.I found all but one of the thirteen pieces interesting to at least some degree. The three about Africa were riveting. But, as mentioned, the real reason to read SEEK is for Johnson's writing. Here is the first paragraph of a report from Kabul, shortly after the Taliban had captured it:"The dogs hear the jets before they arrive overhead, so you get the dogs barking, the dogs yammering, every dog in the city of Kabul protesting the violence that approaches, then the shock waves of bomb blasts rubbing the windows, then the lights of the antiaircraft--some like red droplets whipped from a wand, others floating up like orange bubbles and bursting into smoky flares, and blinding, winking muzzle-bursts in the hills like a single light racing madly back and forth, and Stinger missiles rising on crimson tracers--all, for the first several seconds, in absolute silence; and then the distant knocking noises and little pops like ice cubes in a drink, no bigger than that, until nearer positions start up loudly enough to knock a person off a chair."And here is Johnson, known to his two Somalian comrades or escorts as "White Boy" or "Mike from Idaho", looking at the night sky while laying on a mat with those comrades as the three wait for a convoy to leave Mataban, Somalia for the coast: "'We' are me * * * and two Mohameds--Billeh from Mogadishu and the Lion from Lobopar. We're going to Mogadishu with extremely vague notions as to what happens then . . . 'The Lion'--I suppose Billeh's the Tin Man, and we're looking out for the Scarecrow--and naturally I'm Dorothy, and I guarantee you, Africa is as close as you can come to the Land of Oz, or as close as anybody would want to come. In the dark it seems as distant to the horizon as to the sky overhead. No moon tonight, only every star there ever was * * *."

Harrowingly clear, humane essays from an independent mind and wonderful writer on the fringes of current society, from the wild humor of a honeymoon lost to near-death experiences on small planes in Alaska to riveting accounts of the tedium and terror of war-zones in Africa.

I love D Johnson but only liked this book. What he says is great, always, his style amazing, but I thought he could have used a lot more editing, (which he gets a lot of in his fiction.) The Liberia piece is overlong, so is the Somalia one. But you get D Johnson reacting to..life.. and that's pretty priceless. It's like listening to your crazy uncle who's had a few too many...a treat.

Love his fiction and nonfiction. He will be missed!

This book opens your eyes to issues that people will not talk about. Cultures,civilizations and morals can change in a blink of an eye even where you live.

a book of stories that I could thoroughly enjoy as I had stopped reading short storieseach one is an adventure because the topics are all newreading Denis Johnson is something that I have done, quit and then w/this series of stories, will definitely start reading him again

Great essays by a great writer. Worth reading for the Africa essays alone

Each of his books is better than the last.

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