{"product_id":"rift-poems-9781884800757","title":"Rift Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience-including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina-and his African heritage-including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda-to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a hopeful body. Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses, and Al Young compares them to a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; [they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear.","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043108716887,"sku":"9781884800757","price":12.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781884800757.jpg?v=1750957037","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rift-poems-9781884800757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}