Night Angler

Name: Night Angler
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Geffrey Davis
ISBN: 9781960145512

Author: Geffrey Davis

Narrator: Geffrey Davis

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.

Published: 07/16/2024

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroline

My favorites-: “Human Note” “A Proposal from the Previously Divorced” “Self- Portrait with Headwaters” “Pleasure of Place “The Night Angler”......more

Goodreads review by David

"Night Angler" is a truly fine collection of poems by Geffrey Davis, as he meditates on the meaning of fatherhood. His own father failed that role but finally asks for some forgiveness. The poet himself tries to learn and be truer to the name, Father. The title and title poems suggest a man who fish......more

Goodreads review by Maryann

Having used Geffrey Davis' first book in my classes for several years, I wanted more of his work, which I am using this semester to discuss what poetry means in my effective writing classes. For many students, there isn't a lot of background in contemporary poetry. So far, this book has sparked some......more