{"product_id":"fry-john-with-the-dpb","title":"Fry, John: With the Dogstar as My Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003eOrison Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 2, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized 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 \u003cem\u003eWith the Dogstar as My Witness \u003c\/em\u003ewrestle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn 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 \u003cem\u003esilt will swirl\u003c\/em\u003e (New Border 2012). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eColorado Review West Branch Blackbird Tupelo Quarterly Bellingham Review Washington Square Ruminate\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWaxwing\u003c\/em\u003e among other places as well as in the anthologies \u003cem\u003eNew Border Voices \u003c\/em\u003e(Texas A\u0026amp;ampM UP 2014) and \u003cem\u003eImaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzald\u0026amp;uacutean Borderlands\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41624963678231,"sku":"9781949039207","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/img_proxy_300x_7af98d92-3cc2-4c12-9e9c-0f16a7181761.jpg?v=1724539138","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/fry-john-with-the-dpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}