{"product_id":"9781931968744","title":"Requiem for the Orchard","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel \/ was the tallest thing in the valley,' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck \/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties”or because of them”there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, \/ letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. ”Martin Espada\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Akron Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053186498800,"sku":"9781931968744","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931968744_p0.jpg?v=1763638789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931968744","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}