{"product_id":"9781934949542","title":"Uncle George: Poems from a Maine Boyhood","description":"\"Like most other excellent poets, Robert M. Chute deserves to be better known. It is therefore cheering to see his Uncle George, a book that refuses to go away, given a new incarnation. Here are immediately graspable, often uproarious poems full of the salt and tang of actual life: Maine as it used to be, and maybe persists in being.\"\u003cbr\u003e-X. J. KENNEDY, Lamont Poetry Award, 1961, Poetry Editor, Paris Review, 1961-64\u003cp\u003e\"The best colloquial imagination is in Robert Chute's Uncle George poems which carry on for Edgar Lee-Masters. Read poems like \"Summer School\" and \"Roofing the Shed.\" Real! Wonderful! Truly conveying the rural universality in the late 20th century.\"\u003cbr\u003e-LEO CONNELLAN, Author of Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country, \u003cbr\u003eShelley Memorial Award winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... his notes on the poems should be of particular interest to those writing poetry...The woodblock illustrations are especially fine. A pleasure to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e-GORDON CLARK, Maine Sunday Telegram\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Just Write Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039637061872,"sku":"9781934949542","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934949542_p0.jpg?v=1763655287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934949542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}