{"product_id":"alabama-9780807180105","title":"Alabama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocuses on a boy from a rural, fundamentalist community who becomes a pacifist, feminist, and existentialist poet. Formed from interleaved strands of prose vignettes and lineated poetry, this collection is at once a tale of cultural exile and familial loyalty, and an unflinching look at regional shame that doubles as a love story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf there is a way to hold on, to recover some part of what's lost, and grasp--for even a fleeting moment--the ineffable, this marvelous book is it.\" - Natasha Trethewey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rodney Jones is perhaps the supreme example we have of the southern human person speaking in American poetry.\" - Kate Daniels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones has found an inevitable, pared-down, utterly original way of telling his story in the context of the culture he comes from. This is a lovely book, for its humor as well as its compassion.\" - Alan Williamson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No one can match Jones for the range of unflinching sensibility or the miraculous capacity to wrench blessing out of dailiness and degradation and active harm.\" - Linda Gregerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones is a trustworthy storyteller precisely because he can't help but stay emotionally attached to what he often intellectually disbelieves. \u003ci\u003eAlabama\u003c\/i\u003e is a great book by a great poet.\" - Alan Shapiro","brand":"LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038208098647,"sku":"9780807180105","price":16.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780807180105.jpg?v=1750939485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alabama-9780807180105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}