{"product_id":"one-wild-word-away","title":"One Wild Word Away","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1752998142\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\u003c\/span\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='Sample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/sample-of-one-wild-word-away-by-geffrey-davis\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand cut a ragged seam between past and present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e One Wild Word Away,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Geffrey Davis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eweaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edescriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egenerational trauma and the loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePraise for One Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eOne Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e, Geffrey Davis imagines a song that contains all the contradictions within us, a song to guard against illness, loss, and death, all the old stories of our past. He imagines a new story, too, one that ‘brightens something else between us.’ This book is that song. We can hear it, this love, and ‘It hums like mercy.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—Blas Falconer, author of \u003cem\u003eForgive the Body This Failure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Only LOVE’ is at the heart of this honest, searching new collection by Geffrey Davis in which tender and intricate language transforms raw material: a stuttering marriage, the ghost of a father's addiction, the hauntings of a hard past in a newly-hard, newly-hopeful present...I will turn to this book when I need someone to help me find my way back to that most complicated and simple act: love.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Elizabeth Bradfield, author of \u003cem\u003eToward Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46624014074085,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46624014106853,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/OneWildWordAway_7x9_CVR_SM_1.jpg?v=1701110110","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/one-wild-word-away","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}