{"product_id":"9780982010525","title":"Bloodline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloodline\u003c\/i\u003e by Clela Dyess Reed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are powerful and lucid poems, alive with true sentiment, but  \u003cbr\u003enever sentimental, about that inexhaustible . . . subject: family. \u003cbr\u003e  Thomas Lux, winner of Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, author of   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eGod Particles\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eClela Reed has many stories—folksy, sensuous, arresting: her  \u003cbr\u003efather listening to clouds, her mother in dementia where ―within  \u003cbr\u003eher walls all seasons blur.‖ Such moments come with a vivid  \u003cbr\u003econtext of the physical world. \u003cbr\u003e  Linda Taylor, poet,  professor of English, Oglethorpe University \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe warm bloodline in these twenty-six poems extends not only to  \u003cbr\u003efamily—pioneer ancesters, ailing parents, siblings, husband and  \u003cbr\u003esons—but also to her Southern homeland, victims of Pompeii,  \u003cbr\u003echaracters from Little Women, trees and flowers and birds. . . \u003cbr\u003e  Therese L. Broderick, prize-winning poet, workshop leader,  author of \u003ci\u003eWithin View \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grigsby, Gordon K.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019224498416,"sku":"9780982010525","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982010525","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}