{"product_id":"9780977837298","title":"A Blessed Big Day","description":"A Blessed Big Day brings together more than fifty years of Ralph Brown's\u003cbr\u003eChristmas poems. These poems arise from a variety of places, cultures and circumstances. But while the subject matter of these verses spans the globe from villages of southern Pakistan to the woods of Royalston, Massachusetts,\u003cbr\u003eand ranges across an emotional scale from exhilaration to deep pain, they all reflect the transcendent joy, faith and reverence of an author who knows Jesus as God Incarnate, and who can write with confidence:\u003cp\u003eIf Christmas means what one can do\u003cbr\u003eOr is shaped by good health or clime\u003cbr\u003eThen the essence of Christmas remains\u003cbr\u003eWith man and the fortunes of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems also testify to an American poetic tradition, a tradition fading but still alive, which treats poetry not just as the property of literary professionals,\u003cbr\u003ebut also as an expression of the every day lives, thought and experience of ordinary people. This is the tradition reflected in Best Loved Poems of the American People, and like that anthology, Ralph Brown's poems,\u003cbr\u003eoften written hastily in the midst of the demands of work and circumstances,\u003cbr\u003eencourage us to keep alive the work of the everyday \"rhymester.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doorlight Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50050680226032,"sku":"9780977837298","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780977837298","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}