{"product_id":"heardhoard-9780226789422","title":"HeardHoard","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A landscape charged with the bright light of discernment, where emotions are stirred by rhythmic torsion and sonic density.\"--Julie Carr, judge, Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America \"Intoxicating. . . Sounds unheard and unrivaled since Atsuro Riley's acclaimed debut permeate Heard-Hoard. His elegant rhythms are atmospheric and robust, his neologisms transform the 'weed-embrangling snuffle-path, ' his vernacular is magical as 'dew-sparks galaxifying the crabgrass.' Amid each mesmerizing reading, like dancing to a good song for a good long time before truly hearing its lyrics, Heard-Hoard's remarkable stories crystallize; music becomes narrative. Atsuro Riley is an extraordinary poet. This book holds all the meanings of fantastic.\"   --Terrance Hayes \"Magnificently singular. If evocation of place, however pungent, were the main thing in Riley's work I wouldn't be very interested. But he's pursuing something a lot more ambitious, even abstract, that has deeply to do with, I almost want to say, sacred properties of language or language that could cast a spell against harm. He needs to make big sense; he has the deep confidence it takes to press language hard--not for self-amusement but to hear something he is desperate to hear.\"   --Kay Ryan \"The category of the 'mythic' has been much cheapened by overuse, but Atsuro Riley's Heard-Hoard restores the term to its original and originary power. The English language has rarely been so richly augmented in such little space.\"   --Linda Gregerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCRACKLER    CALL            SUNDER       SHED             STRIPLINGS CHORUS: Petition                                                                                                                 MOTH            CREEKTHROAT                                                                                                                  DUET             CLARY          CHORUS: Lobe                                                                                                                      STRANGER   CAW               CRAW            GOLDHOUND                                                                                                                      CHORUS: Milk                                                                                                                       ORIGIN         RHYTHM       CHORUS: Seed                                                                                                                      ELEMENT     CHORUS: Knell                                                                                                                     OAK               LADDER       CHORUS: Hankerer                                                                                                              THICKET      Notes Acknowledgments About the Author","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400119492951,"sku":"9780226789422","price":15.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226789422.jpg?v=1730469788","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heardhoard-9780226789422","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}