{"product_id":"9781635342468","title":"Rural Score","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRural Score\u003c\/em\u003e is a first collection of poems by Minnesota writer, Lina Belar. This is a writer who loves the places and the people she writes about. With \u003cem\u003eFree Ticket\u003c\/em\u003e, there is a strong emotional punch right at the beginning, a sense of loss and grief, that comes back in \u003cem\u003eAt the Cafe During WeFest\u003c\/em\u003e. There are poems that hearken back to childhood and ground us. We are invited into the writer's world, traveling the back roads of northern Minnesota, listening to church bells in a rural town, and watching seagulls follow the plow, seemingly ordinary events with revealing angles exposed by the poet's eye. In the juxtaposition between\u003cem\u003e Tornado\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOne Perfect Summer Evening\u003c\/em\u003e, Belar suggests how art and community can help us get past devastation. Beginning to end, page by page, \u003cem\u003eRural Score\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a poet who writes because she loves this place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032164647152,"sku":"9781635342468","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781635342468_p0.jpg?v=1763682954","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781635342468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}