{"product_id":"9780822382959","title":"TEST1 Blues and Roots\/Rue and Bluets: A Garland for the Southern Appalachians","description":"Jonathan Williams’s poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of \u003ci\u003eBlues and Roots\u003c\/i\u003e displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrums—always curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. \u003ci\u003eBlues and Roots\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors.\u003ci\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e said of the earlier edition, “One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published.” \u003ci\u003eBlues and Roots\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124164935920,"sku":"9780822382959","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822382959_p0.jpg?v=1763750651","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822382959","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}