{"product_id":"9781937875534","title":"Basin Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a chapbook of original poems by Jesse Graves, author of \u003ci\u003eTennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine\u003c\/i\u003e. Many poems in \u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e address places and themes that resonated in Graves’s first collection, which won both the Weatherford Award and the Appalachian Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award in Poetry. The poems in \u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e examine life in the rural South, changes that have occurred over generations in communities there, and the ways in which the past lives on through memory and attachment to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrace Notes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeora never walked the quarter-mile of red dust\u003cbr\u003e to her bench at Big Sinks schoolhouse\u003cbr\u003e without carrying the hand-sewn satchel\u003cbr\u003e she used for an accordion case.\u003cbr\u003e The notes came to her out of some darkness,\u003cbr\u003e a cavity just inside her ear\u003cbr\u003e where the curve of a sound pushed through\u003cbr\u003e her fingers and into the buttons of that strange machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere did the accordion come from?\u003cbr\u003e The imprint read Vienna Austria 1904\u003cbr\u003e and how it arrived to her in Capps Creek,\u003cbr\u003e Tennessee, the middle of the middle of nowhere\u003cbr\u003e will pass like the mystery of cloudburst,\u003cbr\u003e some graceful symmetry beyond this world\u003cbr\u003e and beyond the next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039810961648,"sku":"9781937875534","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937875534_p0.jpg?v=1763661948","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937875534","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}