Böcker av Kendall Johnson

Being Informed is a resource manual and knowledge source for a variety of topics. This rendering shares insight on how to maneuver through life when your health goes awry, when you are unable to work, when you are caring for a loved one, when you purchase a new home, or when you experience several other life changes. It can be costly to be uninformed, but information precede wisdom and wealth. This book is a wealth of wisdom to empower readers to make educated decisions about their own lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Arroyo Seco Press' new Blue Book chapbook series. No frills chapbooks of Poetry, Memoir, Fiction, and more. Kendall Johnson recently retired from his work in teaching, psychotherapy, and consulting on scene with emergency and disaster agencies, new paints and writes in Southern California. He is the author of Dear Vincent: An Artist and Psychologist Writes Back to Van Gogh; the nonfiction memoirs Chaos & Ash; and Black Box Poetics. His Fireflies Against Darkness, and More Fireflies, are published by Arroyo Seco Press, and he serves as contributing editor to the Journal of Radical Wonder.

Each of the black boxes contains white pages, typed, one or two pages each, stapled at the top left corner. 300-500 word stories; all quite true, unfortunately. These are poetics of chaos.These are the stories I said I'd never write. The kind of stories, once heard, you can't erase from your mind. Scenes you wish you'd never seen. Sensations you wish never to feel again. When I began writing, photography, and painting, I adopted what is rightly or wrongly termed the Hippocratic Oath that medical people are bound by: simply, do no harm. I've held these stories back.

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.