{"product_id":"night-manual","title":"Night Manual","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNight Manual\u003c\/h1\u003eDavid Hornibrook\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003eMay 1 2019\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780814346624\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0814346626\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eReflections on grief, family, and faith set against the seasonal changes and landscapes of Michigan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight Manual\u003c\/i\u003e is a survival guide for life--all the messy, wonderful, grieving, and self-doubting parts of life. David Hornibrook's debut poetry collection is a book of hours that keeps time through anguish and explores the ineffable borderland of existence. These are poems that seek to get at what cannot be described through a process of negation--to delineate the shape of an absence by writing the things around it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight Manual\u003c\/i\u003e is divided into four sections loosely inspired by the four seasons. Each section explores the theme of absence from a slightly different proximity; as a whole, the book progresses from grief to gratitude. A major task of Hornibrook's is to communicate the gravity and perplexity of loss while at the same time charting out a kind of liturgy of joy and wonder at the cycle of life in an ever-changing world. With lines like \"My eyes are pulled to the monitor \/ where a universe expands or contracts, I can't tell which\" (from \"The Ultrasound\") to \"Facebook keeps showing Miley with her mouth open \/ \u0026amp; I keep finding little things wrong with everything\" (from \"Self Portrait w\/ Wrecking Ball\"), Hornibrook has created instructions for moving through a world suddenly disoriented by loss, a world with starlings, water birds and aliens, robots and deer, Miley Cyrus and God, black holes, and the quiet morning strangeness of a house when all the people you love are still asleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of contemporary poetry who want to believe in something again--who need a small dose of absurdity along with their suffering--this collection is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390913904685,"sku":"19460","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/night-manual","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}