Fry, John: With the Dogstar as My Witness

Orison Books, paperback

Publication Date: October 2, 2018

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Organized around the canonical prayer hours beginning in the evening and moving into morning (vespers compline vigils lauds) and set in an ethereal South Texas landscape the poems in John Fry's debut collection With the Dogstar as My Witness wrestle with theological and deeply personal concerns in language that is wrenched almost to breaking but which holds after all and forms a tapestry of (sometimes tortured) prayer.

John Fry received an AB in English from Davidson College in North Carolina and an MFA in Poetry from Texas State University-San Marcos. He is the author of the chapbook silt will swirl (New Border 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review West Branch Blackbird Tupelo Quarterly Bellingham Review Washington Square Ruminate and Waxwing among other places as well as in the anthologies New Border Voices (Texas A&ampM UP 2014) and Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzald&uacutean Borderlands (Aunt Lute 2016). Fry is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin where he is writing a dissertation on medieval English literature.