{"product_id":"9781934414484","title":"Your Father on the Train of Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Father on the Train of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six a day. As the collaboration deepened, a third \"voice\" emerged that neither poet can claim as solely their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eYour Father on the Train of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e read as lyric snapshots of a culture we are all too familiar with, even as it slips from us: malls and supermarkets, museums and parades, toxic waste and cheesecakes, ghosts and fire, fathers and sons. Ultimately, these fables and confessions constitute a sort of gentle apocalypse, a user-friendly self-help manual for the end of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eG.C. Waldrep\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eGoldbeater's Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (2003 Colorado Prize for poetry), \u003ci\u003eDisclamor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eArchicembalo\u003c\/i\u003e (2008 Dorset Prize). He has won awards from the Poetry Society of America and Academy of American Poets, fellowships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; and an NEA fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches at Bucknell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Gallaher\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eGentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Guesses\u003c\/i\u003e (Levis Poetry Prize), and \u003ci\u003eMap of the Folded World\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has been included in The Best American Poetry series and numerous journals and anthologies. He co-edits \u003ci\u003eThe Laurel Review\u003c\/i\u003e, GreenTower Press, and the Akron Series of Contemporary Poetics. He teaches at Northwest Missouri State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044121460976,"sku":"9781934414484","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934414484_p0.jpg?v=1763641656","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934414484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}