{"product_id":"my-fathers-hand-is-a-c-p-shafer-9781388743420","title":"My Father's Hand Is a Mountain Range: Poems","description":"Opening with an ode to the freckles on his father's hand, C. P. SHAFER's debut poetry collection takes the reader on a journey into the mountains of life and the wilds therein. From a catalog of sounds that his father makes while getting ready for work, to a retelling of Theseus which paints the ancient hero as a poster child for classic abandonment issues - each poem is a \"saw-tooth landscape\" that \"unfolds before you \/ offering \/ what hasn't been mapped...\" Just as in nature there is pain beneath all beauty, C.P. SHAFER's prose pushes up through the mire of suicides, break-ups, and the inevitable betrayals of the body to see passing birds as spilled ink, and fatherhood as a chance to transform the poison inside us into life. \"Crush the fragile enough...\" the poet speculates \"...and the remnants become immovable, that's how mountains are made: cores bleeding to fill the cracks; deformities rising in a universe falling.\" My Father's Hand Is a Mountain Range is a parade of deformities that explore masculinity, mortality, and the slivers of light we might otherwise miss during our brief \"bone-soaked waltz with rain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. P. Shafer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1388743426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781388743420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blurb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d","brand":"C. P. Shafer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458060366079,"sku":"9781388743420","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_829ebbae-6d8b-4b1e-9e19-837d01d18ee5.jpg?v=1777402195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-fathers-hand-is-a-c-p-shafer-9781388743420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}