Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley Brock Johnson Daniel
Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley Brock Johnson Daniel In his second collection--a powerful act of documentary poetics a decade in the making--Johnson chronicles the perils and joys of…
Specifikacia Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley Brock Johnson Daniel
Shadow ACT: An Elegy for Journalist James Foley Brock Johnson Daniel
In his second collection--a powerful act of documentary poetics a decade in the making--Johnson chronicles the perils and joys of fatherhood and a shattering tragedy that plays out thousands of miles away. In this poetic daybook like no other, Johnson often speaks directly to his missing friend--"I don't know, Jim, where you are," even long after his death. Nearly two years after the poet's closest friend went missing, journalist James Foley was executed by ISIS in Syria.
An educator and poet, Johnson has crafted a vibrant, urgent collection that pulses with the terror and hardship Foley faced, the anguish of those he left behind, and Page to page, Foley ghosts in and out of the book, as the poet hails the birth of children, recounts hunting for the body of a neighbor's missing cat, and, later, pores over the hand-written pages that Foley smuggled out of a Libyan prison in his shoe.