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fatherhood
fragmented and nonlinear poetry collections
gun violence
hope and despair in poetry
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lyric narrative
lyric poetry
lyrical poetry about family
meditative poetry on time and grief
melancholic and haunting poetry collections
modern elegiac poetry
pacific ocean
parenthood and poetry collections
parenting
poems about ghosts and the supernatural
poetic depictions of father-daughter relationships
poetic depictions of father-son
poetic explorations of illness
poetry about cultural violence
poetry about fatherhood and loss
poetry about illness and caregiving
poetry about intergenerational trauma
poetry collections that explore personal history
poetry of caregiving and emotional endurance
poetry of haunting and remembrance
poetry that blurs time and memory
quiver poems
relationships
rivers
sirens and myth in modern poetry
time and memory in poetry
time collapse
toxic masculinity
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waterway
Product details
- ISBN 9781680034264
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Texas Review Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Distributary picks up where the speaker from Quiver left off and delves deeper in that speaker’s concerns and fears around fatherhood, cultural violence and his daughter’s illness. It is a book of sirens and ghosts, of time collapse. How many moments tangle and spark in the waking moments of our lives. It houses a grainy melancholia, paradigms of grief. Houses hope.
Luke Johnson’s first book Quiver (TRP, 2023) was named a finalist for the California Book Award and finished finalist for prizes such as the Jake Adam York, The Levis and the Vassar Miller Award. Johnson is the co-author of A Slow Indwelling, a call and response project with the poet Megan Merchant (Harbor Editions). You can read more of his work at Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.
