{"product_id":"night-manual","title":"Night Manual","description":"\u003cem\u003eNight Manual\u003c\/em\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Manual\u003c\/em\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. Fans 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.","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32144587227219,"sku":"9780814346624","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780814346624.jpg?v=1778394678","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/night-manual","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}