Moonlight: New Zealand Poems on Death and Dying

by Andrew Johnson (Editor)

"New Zealand Poets write about grief, death and dying with particular insight, sensitivity and passion. The 65 Poems in this collection offer both solace and strength. They will be welcomed by those dealing with the imminent or recent death of a loved one, we well as readers who seek the most powerful poetry New Zealand has produced."

175 pages, Hardcover

Published July 18, 2008

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Elected vice in 1864, Andrew Johnson succeeded the assassinated Abraham Lincoln from 1865 as the seventeenth president of the United States; Reconstruction in the south and the purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked his Administration, and an attempt to unseat Edwin Stanton, secretary of war, led Republican senators to bring his impeachment on purely political charges in 1868, but one vote acquitted him, who continued to 1869.

Johnson, a Democrat at the time, ran on the ticket of national Union. He came to office as the Civil War concluded. He newly favored quick restoration of the seceded. His plans gave no protection to the former slaves, and his conflict with the dominators of Congress culminated with the House of Representatives in the first American trial.

Reviews

[chloe the bookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Utterly phenomonal. This book helped me cope with the inevitable with "the heart has its own comfort for grief" (Janet Frame) and "Time comes when my compass trembles to your true absence... to the frost, he is history, gone from this round world, he is starlight."