{"product_id":"a-legacy-of-shadows-selected-poems-9781556590979","title":"A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBobby Joe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eif i should die before I wake...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don''t know if I believed in ghosts\u003cbr\u003ebefore Bobby Joe Lee had his stroke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethat big man we called Bull lying there\u003cbr\u003eall them years in that hospital room\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewasn''t nothing they could do\u003cbr\u003ebut wait and see\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eif he''d try to wake up or let it go\u003cbr\u003ehe was like a lightning-struck tree\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edidn''t even know it was gone\u003cbr\u003ealone in there, blind and lost\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003euntil the next firestorm come\u003cbr\u003eto finish him off\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe PBS-TV documentary on David Lee was entitled \"The Pig Poet,\" and according to \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e that sobriquet didn''t bother Utah''s poet Laureate: \"I''ve rarely in my life been without a pig.\" Pigs, and the gentle-hearted redneck roustabout John, feature prominently in Lee''s narratives and are integral to what he calls his \"aural agrarian saga.\" This saga, written over the past two decades, is also populated with some of the most authentically drawn characters since those of Mark Twain. Lee''s small-town universe is frequented by tragedy and near-tragedy, and transcendence most often arrives in the form of salvaged humor, whether ironic, self-depricating, or ribald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"David Lee''s pig poems are the best thing to happen to animals in poetry since Kit Smart''s cat.''-Thomas McGrath\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lee''s calculatedly simple narratives are wonderfully wrought. His is a welcome voice, neither academic nor urban.\"-\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available by David Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Lee: A Listener''s Guide\u003c\/i\u003e Reading from: \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNews from Down to the Café\u003c\/i\u003eAudio CD $12.00, 1-55659-137-3.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359608013143,"sku":"9781556590979","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556590979.jpg?v=1754125160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-legacy-of-shadows-selected-poems-9781556590979","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}