{ "item_title" : "Quiver", "item_author" : [" Luke Johnson "], "item_description" : "California Book Awards Finalist Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow... Quiver will change the way you see.--Patricia Smith, author of Unshuttered: Poems Quiver is a rare creation full of song and scar, authenticity and Old Testament mythology, of emotional complexity and witness.--John Sibley Williams, Scale Model of a Country at Dawn The poems [in Quiver] are singing when they are stinging, scalding as they serve up something wildly fresh, slap after exquisite slap.--Elaine Sexton, author of Drive ...a work of glorious complexity.--Ellen Bass ...the most visceral, haunting book of poems I have read in years.--Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate Quiver is 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: Quiver will change the way you see. ... floodghostMother couldn't managewhat sated me, so she prayed:sought in silencea substance that'd soothe,something familial with grace.I groaned. Broke bodiesover blacktop's pane, a bottom-less well of blood. At sevenI smothered a frog and fed each legto my quivering sisterlaughed while she choked out its skin. At twelve,I pulled a pistol from underthe vacant shed and shovedits shudder to a schoolboy's temple, teasedwhile he wept in his piss.And yet all along a Psalm, a satchelof prayer: song. Mother makingcontracts with the sky, while Itore its pages to light a fire, warmmy hands around it. Radiant blue. Redfrom a faraway pine.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/68/003/320/1680033204_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "21.95", "online_price" : "21.95", "our_price" : "21.95", "club_price" : "21.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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