{"product_id":"night-angler","title":"Night Angler","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThis title is available on audiobook. Grab your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1880569923\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"9781960145512 005 MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/9781960145512-005-mp3\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e9781960145512 005 MP3\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the James Laughlin Award\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeffrey Davis’s award-winning second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family.\u003c\/strong\u003e In poems that express a deep sense of gratitude and wonder, Davis delivers a heart-strong prayer that longs for home, for safety for Black lives, and for the messy success of breaking through the trauma of growing up during the 1980s crack epidemic to create a new model of fatherhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eExcerpt from \"\u003cstrong\u003ePillow Kombat with the Ultimate Sleep Fighter\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike in a video game, size does nothing\u003cbr\u003eto decide advantage:—my demure son\u003cbr\u003ethrows his demure weight around our family bed\u003cbr\u003ewith resolve, and so I revolve inside discomfort’s\u003cbr\u003eorbit, the planet of my sleepiness demoted, \u003cbr\u003edwarfed—unstudied! Just as I reach my parental\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethreshold of self-denial, just as I go to reinstate\u003cbr\u003ethe matter of physics—\u003ci\u003eenergy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eforce\u003c\/i\u003e—he executes\u003cbr\u003ehis special move: a combo of lovey words struck\u003cbr\u003ehalf-consciously across the dark, launching me\u003cbr\u003einto another vain-cycle search for deep space\u003cbr\u003eshuteye. Then his favorite toy sheep tucked between\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emy folded arms (FINISH HIM!). Then the fresh delicacy\u003cbr\u003eof his foot plopped upon my forehead (FATALITY).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A strong second work after \u003cem\u003eRevising the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e that will resonate with any reader interested in the ties that lovingly bind.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“From love letters and prayers surrounding youth, fatherhood, and family—to a river that holds the solace of fishing and life in the South—the book constantly evolves. Davis’s narrative poems comment on the mistreatment, the wonder, and the hope surrounding black lives, not only in the South, but in America as a whole.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The poems in Geffrey Davis’s \u003ci\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/i\u003e sing in both ecstatic joy and tremendous lament. We partake in the rituals of fatherhood—both coming into and growing out of the spiritual bond. We witness the anguish of loss but also the possibilities of childhood. And in that threshold between life and death where all fathers and sons traverse, the brilliant harmonies of understanding arise in rainbowed arcs like epiphanic trout rising to kiss the sun. Poetry and prayer have never shared so close a breath.” \u003cb\u003e—Oliver de la Paz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Geffrey Davis’s stunning collection \u003ci\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/i\u003e there is a grace fathered by risk, a wonder mothered by worry. These lines cast and cast through generations of fathers to find music and floods and hands that can deliver both tenderness and violence. This is the book I want to give to all the parents in my life so they can see their own struggles and songs and be reminded that the lessons we offer our children are often the ones we need most, that ‘there are those who touch a body and leave it graceful: be that kind of wonder.’” \u003cb\u003e—Traci Brimhall, author of \u003cem\u003eSaudade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e”Geffrey Davis’s poems reveal the small slants of light, the unusual turns of fate, the near invisible machinations—of humans and nature—that ripple through everything with consequences, yet also always with a breathless and radiant redemption. Love, fatherhood, family, loss are all engaged with lyrically and with a deeply engaging and persuasive insight. Davis is a quietly brilliant poet.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Abani, author of \u003ci\u003eSanctificum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46624037503205,"sku":"9781942683780","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46624037535973,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/NightAngler_CVR_with_seal-min.jpg?v=1539174283","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/night-angler","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}