{"product_id":"quiver-poems-9781680033205","title":"Quiver: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eCalifornia Book Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow... \u003ci\u003eQuiver \u003c\/i\u003ewill change the way you see.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003ePatricia Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eUnshuttered: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eQuiver\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare creation full of song and scar, authenticity and Old Testament mythology, of emotional complexity and witness.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJohn Sibley Williams, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScale Model of a Country at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The poems [in \u003ci\u003eQuiver\u003c\/i\u003e] are singing when they are stinging, scalding as they serve up something wildly fresh, slap after exquisite slap.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eElaine Sexton\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDrive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"...a work of glorious complexity.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eEllen Bass\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"...the most visceral, haunting book of poems I have read in years.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eLee Herrick\u003c\/b\u003e, California Poet Laureate \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuiver \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of reckoning, a book of ghosts, a book of lineal fracture and generational fatherlesness. It's a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood. One that yields witness to trauma, erotic shames, brutalities and toxic masculinity, and in so doing, emerges with a speaker beginning to free himself. Patricia Smith said it best: \"\u003ci\u003eQuiver\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way you see.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"floodghost\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mother couldn't manage \u003cbr\u003e what sated me, so she prayed: \u003cbr\u003e sought in silence \u003cbr\u003e a substance that'd soothe, \u003cbr\u003e something familial with grace. \u003cbr\u003e I groaned. Broke bodies \u003cbr\u003e over blacktop's pane, a bottom- \u003cbr\u003e less well of blood. At seven \u003cbr\u003e I smothered a frog and fed each leg \u003cbr\u003e to my quivering sister \u003cbr\u003e laughed while she choked out its skin. At twelve, \u003cbr\u003e I pulled a pistol from under \u003cbr\u003e the vacant shed and shoved \u003cbr\u003e its shudder to a schoolboy's temple, teased \u003cbr\u003e while he wept in his piss. \u003cbr\u003e And yet all along a Psalm, a satchel \u003cbr\u003e of prayer: song. Mother making \u003cbr\u003e contracts with the sky, while I \u003cbr\u003e tore its pages to light a fire, warm \u003cbr\u003e my hands around it. Radiant blue. Red \u003cbr\u003e from a faraway pine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUKE JOHNSON's poems can be found at \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, Florida Review, Frontier, Cortland Review, Nimrod, Thrush\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. You can find more of his poetry at lukethepoet.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Trp the University Press of Shsu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555342586130,"sku":"9781680033205","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5001d4a-b508-4527-abf6-959de2dce43e.jpg?v=1731728605","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quiver-poems-9781680033205","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}