{"product_id":"9780898231854","title":"Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. African American Studies. To be instructed by exhortation in scripture from a pulpit is a return to fundamentals; Bryant loves to riff in short exhortations, treatises, assays on the controversial, on the impolitic... Bryant is at heart a teacher; he believes in daylight, so you can see the night-Michael Harper. In Philip Bryant's latest collection of poems, crystal-clear recollections crack with tangible immediacy: Frost\/ is on the grass, but the snow is completely gone. The sky\/ is clear and deep blue; I don't know spring is coming\/ because I am too young to know what season it is (Eleven Short Scenes from My Life). Philip Bryant is an Associate Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.","brand":"New Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009470185712,"sku":"9780898231854","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780898231854_p0.gif?v=1763865576","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780898231854","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}