{"product_id":"news-from-where-i-live-poems-9781557285089","title":"News from Where I Live: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the eighth annual Arkansas Poetry Award, Martin Lammon writes poems that deal fearlessly and directly with their subjects. Tenderness, complexity, compassion, reverence, and condemnation are all within his range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting of love, he can speak broadly and universally of the heart, yet in the same poem, he can intricately describe a woman’s hand, a fire on a beach, or the hollows around a lover’s eye. Even when he works in the voice of a suicide, his precision can be devastating, as in these lines: “When you lie beside me under stars, each needlepoint \/ of light pricks my bare arms.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith equal ease, Lammon travels across miles, cultures, and time, writing of kilns and potters in Japan, long-dead Eskimos in Alaska, or Blue Hole Cave in Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of grace and candor, these poems pursue the stories that shimmer behind the day’s headlines, seeking the spirit at stake in the “lives beside [our] own whose secrets are worth loving.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041324499287,"sku":"9781557285089","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781557285089.jpg?v=1750949820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/news-from-where-i-live-poems-9781557285089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}