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.”
“floodghost” Mother couldn’t manage what sated me, so she
prayed: sought in silence a substance that’d soothe, something
familial with grace. I groaned. Broke bodies over blacktop’s
pane, a bottom- less well of blood. At seven I smothered a frog and
fed each leg to my quivering sister laughed while she choked out
its skin. At twelve, I pulled a pistol from under the vacant shed
and shoved its shudder to a schoolboy’s temple, teased
while he wept in his piss. And yet all along a Psalm, a satchel of
prayer: song. Mother making contracts with the sky, while I tore
its pages to light a fire, warm my hands around it. Radiant blue.
Red from a faraway pine.
General
Imprint: |
Texas Review Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Luke Johnson
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
126 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-68003-320-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-68003-320-4 |
Barcode: |
9781680033205 |
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