Night Angler
Poems
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 96 pages ; 23 cm.
WINNER OF THE 2018 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD
Geffrey Davis's second collection of poems reads as an evolving love letter and meditation on what it means to raise an American family. 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 crack epidemic to create a new model of fatherhood. Filled with humor and tenderness, Night Angler sings its own version of a song called grace --sung with a heavy and hopeful mix of inherited notes and discovered chords.
Series: American poets continuum series ; no. 172.
Contents:
The fidelity of water -- Hymn or hum -- The radiance -- The night angler -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side a: my son's prelude -- Survivor -- First blood -- Human note -- The epistemology of cheerios -- Prayer with miscarriage/Grant us the ruined grounds -- A proposal from the previously divorced -- Pillow kombat with the ultimate sleep fighter -- Son's face -- What I mean when I say harmony -- Self-portrait with headwaters -- Self-portrait as a dead black boy -- I have my father's hands -- Smolder -- The book of family -- What make a man -- From the country notebooks -- The fidelity of music -- The night angler -- Poem in which my son wakes crying -- Arkansas aubade -- What I mean when I say harmony -- 3:16: whosoever -- 3:16: so loved -- 3:16: for 56 -- 3:16: world -- 3:16: blackout -- Like a river -- From the suicide notebooks -- The fidelity of angles -- What i mean when I say harmony -- Bop: no more your mirror/Side b: my wife's fugue -- Pleasures of place -- The epistemology of growing pains -- West Virginia nocturne -- Hear the light -- For the child's mole -- The night angler.
ISBN:
9781942683780
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Dav | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/24/2024) |
"James Laughlin Award. Winner 2018, Academy of American Poets"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-89).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-89).