{"product_id":"august-evening-with-trumpet-9781557287748","title":"August Evening with Trumpet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its first poem, “String,” with its mythic overtones to the final “The Movement of Ice,” \u003ci\u003eAugust Evening with Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the varieties of surprise and mystery, pain and wonder in the human experience. In constant motion, this collection ranges across a broad landscape, one in which trout swim through a house, where a coal miner father on vacation digs clams, where an old mother refuses help as she walks a narrow plank across a brook, and where in the quietly moving “Late November,” the speaker releases a raccoon from a leg-hold steel trap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncluttered, clear, and direct, the poems move effortlessly and seamlessly into one another, gathering an overall pleasing unity and narrative energy. And if there is a vein of quiet sorrow and darkness running through the collection, it is balanced against courage, grace, and good humor. At the book’s center is a deep reverence for childhood, for parents, for children, for language, and for landscape, all of which Humes admirably holds up for us. Harry Humes’s work brings to mind William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand \/ And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041330856279,"sku":"9781557287748","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781557287748.jpg?v=1750949846","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/august-evening-with-trumpet-9781557287748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}