Our Father in the Year of the WolfDave Harrity
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Our Father in the Year of the Wolf tells the story of a cursed father and son—monsters forced to relive the sins of generations past. Through cyclical, lyric poems, Dave Harrity deftly braids together motifs from horror, pop-culture and biblical literature into a winding and complex narrative about the trauma and fragmentation of a rural family, our animal commonness, the chaos of our hidden violence and the brutalities of our histories come back to haunt us. Book Excerpts
Table of ContentsAuthor's Notes Part One Lemniscate Part Two Second LawEggshells Around His House In the Pasture that Penned His Horses Potter's Field Her Snow Globe Not Simply Fashion Only Desires Design Over Functionality If the Silver Could Be Given Back & Prophesies Erased Part Three ReverberationTo David [Morning in the Garage with Bone Saw, Chains, Yellow Rubber Gloves & His Numbers Station] To Say It Like You Mean It the First Time Mother's Crossword, #26 Down To David [Afternoon in the Garage with Feathered Rods, High Lamp, Empty Quiver & His Numbers Station] Declares Himself & What Is Done So Easily in the Left Is Left To David [Night in the Garage with Pliers, Wires, a Dead Motor & His Numbers Station] Her: Coda Part Four & Now the Same Story, as Told in Tiny SlicesDrift Men in Masks Father in Middle Age, Just Before Nightfall & His Ministers That Room of Father's Cellar Moonflower Part Five Our Father in the Year of the WolfPart Six -NoxThreshing Floor Something Closer to Ennui I Was Told There Would Be Cake Glissando Legion Care for the Widow &/or Orphan Litany of Aphorisms Learnt at Home Equi- Part Seven Nativity in Autumn GraysTo Absalom [for Naught] Before Parting Water Being Prompted from the Shore Story Clipped by Mother from the Funny Papers To Absalom [of None] The Only Time He Ever Cooked Meadowland To Absalom [in Mourning] Blessed Are the Peacemakers & the Pieces Made About the Author |
