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Ben Johnson

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Ben Johnson was born and bred in Oklahoma. Despite his best effort to escape, the red dirt, blue skies and pumpjacks call to him the way some certain river calls each salmon home. After a tumultuous early adulthood he spent 17 years in and around organized labor in Vermont on both sides. Now he has returned to his first love, the stories and myths that we live inside.

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...they say, and this is the best place I could think of to start. I do my best to write in the same way one pulls at loose bits of sweaters; because something inside my head nags at me. So one starts pulling on the loose threads and re-assembling them outside one's head, and one hopes it all takes the shape of a whole other sweater, just made of the same raw stuff you took out of your head.

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Published on December 12, 2022 08:23
Average rating: 3.92 · 367 ratings · 51 reviews · 229 distinct worksSimilar authors
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“Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.”
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“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”
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“He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.”
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