{"product_id":"9780692809976","title":"Straight Ahead","description":"American poetry of the Washington State steppe and scrublands.\u003cp\u003eRed Shuttleworth's Straight Ahead shows readers a crisply-drawn textual landscape of the scablands of Eastern Washington. This is a wounded land pocked with volcanic rock, coyotes, and \"plow-ripped \/ floury soil\" that, like the mythic Old West, \"declines and crumbles \/ to blue rock suburban driveway gravel\" and \"double-wide farmhouses.\" In these stark and masterfully-wrought scenes-most crafted in chiseled tanka-like five-line poems-we get a glimpse into this microcosm of America through Shuttleworth's astute, terse, and always human observations. In Straight Ahead we hear the twenty-first century lament of the exile in the Western wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Barbara Brinson Curiel, author, Mexican Jenny and Other Poems, winner of the 2012 Philip Levine Prize\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Horse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017942188272,"sku":"9780692809976","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692809976_p0.jpg?v=1763617543","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692809976","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}