
The Veil
1987
First Published
4.04
Average Rating
78
Number of Pages
A collection of poems of grief, regret, nightmare, acceptance, redemption, and the dark recesses of the soul
Avg Rating
4.04
Number of Ratings
77
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Denis Johnson
Author · 27 books
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received many awards for his work, including a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction (1993), a Whiting Writer's Award (1986), the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from the Paris Review for Train Dreams, and most recently, the National Book Award for Fiction (2007).