{"product_id":"9781937875589","title":"More Than Heavy Rain","description":"\u003ci\u003eMore Than Heavy Rain\u003c\/i\u003e brings together poems of intense observation culled from a life lived mostly outside. Set mostly around the poet’s home along the Watauga River in northeast Tennessee, the poems also reach out to such distant locations as Montana, Alaska, and post-war Germany. Some of them reconstruct the poet’s childhood in rural West Virginia. Some examine his family history, the events and relatives who helped determine the way he views the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIKE TURNING ON A SWITCH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a day and a night the leaves of all four\u003cbr\u003eGingko trees in the courtyard fell,\u003cbr\u003eFanned out in one direction by a south wind\u003cbr\u003eAs if they had been deliberately laid.\u003cbr\u003eEven in half-light they glowed\u003cbr\u003eAs if a door had been opened at mid-court\u003cbr\u003eSpilling brightness onto the grass.\u003cbr\u003eBut there was no door, no room into which\u003cbr\u003eOne might lead, no light to shine out,\u003cbr\u003eJust yellow leaves, four shadow-anchored\u003cbr\u003eBoats, straining to pull away with the tide.","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137237336304,"sku":"9781937875589","price":2.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937875589_p0.jpg?v=1763662811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937875589","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}