{"product_id":"9780983300809","title":"Nine Acres","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by Marie Howe from over one thousand submissions, \u003ci\u003eNine Acres\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e \/APR Honickman First Book Prize. Taking their titles from chapters of a 1930s small-scale farming handbook, the fifty-two poems in this cycle create a handbook for living and explore sustainability on many levels—on the land, in the family, and in the spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Marie Howe writes in her introduction to the book, \"Nathanial Perry has collected poems into this book as one plants a field, as an act of husbandry: each line a furrow where seeds flourish or fail. Husbandry—to create a dwelling place and to care for it—these are the ancient acts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Soil Surface Management\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI spent the afternoon breaking\u003cbr\u003eground. The tiller bucked and groaned\u003cbr\u003eat the job, but with each pass I saw\u003cbr\u003ea perfect blankness, like I'd been loaned\u003cbr\u003ea second life in which to grow\u003cbr\u003ea third. The sun sat on its porch\u003cbr\u003eand smiled. I wondered if the dirt\u003cbr\u003ewould be enough, a kind of torch\u003cbr\u003eto set inside our lives to say,\u003cbr\u003ewe'll grow our food like this, our plans\u003cbr\u003ewill look like this —like soil squared\u003cbr\u003eand measured into beds by a man\u003cbr\u003esweating through his shirt with effort.\u003cbr\u003eIn dirt is one life we can choose\u003cbr\u003eto make. I spent the afternoon\u003cbr\u003ebreaking what I knew we'd use.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Perry\u003c\/b\u003e lives with his family in rural southside Virginia. He is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eHampden-Sydney Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e and teaches at Hampden-Sydney College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020980601072,"sku":"9780983300809","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983300809_p0.jpg?v=1763885179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983300809","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}