{"product_id":"9781566892131","title":"Saltwater Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI know the occurrence of objects\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ein this climate. Even music, if left to our weather, will warp within days.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConceived in the years before Hurricane Katrina and deeply influenced by its aftermath, \u003ci\u003eSaltwater Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant assemblage of geographical metaphor expressed in original lyrics, text from \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e , and the voices of New Orleans:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI come from all over New Orleans. What I feel needs to be said about this is that everything was done wrong.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Raymond McDaniel’s poems enter the ecological, political, and religious miasma of the Gulf Coast, their moral, philosophical, and literary complexity offer an uncommonly perceptive look at cataclysmic disaster, human cruelty, and cultural resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGod help us we tried to stay shattered but we just got better.\u003cbr\u003eWe grew adept, we caught the fish as they fled.\u003cbr\u003eWe skinned the fish, our knife clicked like an edict.\u003cbr\u003eWe were harmed, and then we healed.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRaymond McDaniel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the National Poetry Series award-winning collection \u003ci\u003eMurder (a violet)\u003c\/i\u003e . A Floridian, McDaniel now lives in Ann Arbor, teaches at the University of Michigan, hosts the reading series at Shaman Drum Bookshop, and writes for The Constant Critic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060311965936,"sku":"9781566892131","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566892131_p0.jpg?v=1763773155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566892131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}