{"product_id":"9781680030235","title":"Alluvial Cities","description":"The poems in Alluvial Cities are drawn from this layered landscape's geology and history, its people and language, and the kindred ties between earth and water, flesh and blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DEUCALIONIDS\u003cbr\u003e The waters broke from the void before first light,\u003cbr\u003e a divinity ripping through the trembling flesh\u003cbr\u003e of marshes and the levees’ old clay thighs,\u003cbr\u003e covering every mile of St. Bernard Parish.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Houses with their cement slabs have floated\u003cbr\u003e light as the rinds of watermelons you ate as a boy\u003cbr\u003e and chucked into Lake Catherine, swelled to overflowing\u003cbr\u003e by the god that surged into the Rigolets estuary\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e and left an afterbirth of sweet crude leaked\u003cbr\u003e from foundered tanks.  Cars hang like carrion\u003cbr\u003e birds on the highest branches and torn roofs.  Leached\u003cbr\u003e of mud and flood waters, the houses we pass cry out\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e broken window panes, duct-taped fridges, and a stillness\u003cbr\u003e that leaves us on the dead grass of this\u003cbr\u003e woman’s home, like so many thrown bones.","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166123180272,"sku":"9781680030235","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680030235_p0.jpg?v=1763689143","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680030235","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}