Poetry and About Poetry

Night Angler by Geffrey Davis My rating: 4 of 5 stars “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 fishes the night for meaning and faith and forgiveness and hope. Dear Boy: In the beginning, father was a fear I wanted to call love. For years I waded heart-deep into that doubt for version of my name I could, with some forgiveness, cast before your image. Dear Boy: Here’s my hand— because your arrival has mended the grave current of time, in the beginning I was talking to you. The language is truly fine. The emotion personal yet universal, poetic yet deep and real. …light creeps all across a distinct range of mountain, stunning plateau of birds into the original sweetness of song. We want to understand this— according ...