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Full-length collection of 85 works by Jonathan Yungkans, including poems, prose poems, photographs, and an essay. Yungkans is a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer with an MFA from CSU, Long Beach. He is also the author of The Ravens Will Arrive Later, a full- length poetry collection released in March 2026 by Gnashing Teeth Publishing. His second poetry chapbook, Beneath a Glazed Shimmer, won the 2019 Clockwise Chapbook Prize.

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In Borrowed from Heaven, Jonathan Yungkans has gathered work that spans 13 years--quietly luminous poems that bear witness to a clear-eyed and tender attentiveness to the physical world, poems that are visual and lyrical, meditative and soulful. --Cecilia Woloch, author of Carpathia and Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An amazing book, Borrowed from Heaven dances the liminal field between image and word. At times literal, at times surreal, Yungkans's probing poetic reflections on art and life challenge the fast read, as good writing must.... Take your time with this one: treasures await. --Kendall Johnson, author of a dozen books, including Writing for Vision (essays, poems, and visual art); Dear Vincent: A Psychologist Turned Artist Writes Back to Van Gogh; and the memoir Chaos & Ash (stories from 25 years of crisis intervention) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Yungkans writes at the threshold where memory, myth, and the sensory world converge. With precise craft and a rule-bending sense of wonder, he leads us to sit with ravens and forage with the coyote, to inhabit visual masterpieces, wander sandy windswept beaches, and feel the ocean's tempest in our soul. What emerges is a fiercely individuated and vulnerable voice... --Katherine McDaniel, Editor, Synkroniciti Magazine

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