{"product_id":"9781680033205","title":"Quiver : Poems by Luke Johnson","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302061191541,"sku":"9781680033205","price":21.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781680033205.jpg?v=1762792217","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781680033205","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}