{"product_id":"9780226789422","title":"Heard-Hoard","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang.  In \u003ci\u003eHeard\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eHoard\u003c\/i\u003e, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook, \u003ci\u003eHeard-Hoard \u003c\/i\u003eencompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.”  From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time \u003ci\u003ethat yonder oak\u003c\/i\u003e,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014909935856,"sku":"9780226789422","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226789422_p0.jpg?v=1763675306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226789422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}