{"product_id":"9781937875657","title":"In the Night Orchard: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Night Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South. These often-narrative poems are concerned with history, race, indigenous music, the many Southern dialects and customs and the quest for authentic identity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSkull, Grim, and Grinning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI forgot how barbed wire snarls—\u003cbr\u003e like a low bird’s nest—caught\u003cbr\u003e the cold raccoon last winter.\u003cbr\u003e He found his own death there,\u003cbr\u003e and each snagged stage of ice,\u003cbr\u003e sun and hungry birds had a say\u003cbr\u003e as weeds blew and I found\u003cbr\u003e human obligations to occupy me.\u003cbr\u003e But after thaw I went walking,\u003cbr\u003e saw a twisted root (spring’s\u003cbr\u003e first threat of snake), red eye-\u003cbr\u003e shape of new sumac leaves,\u003cbr\u003e deer tracks by the hundred,\u003cbr\u003e and on the rotted fence post\u003cbr\u003e polished to blinding shine by sun,\u003cbr\u003e the forgotten relic hung,\u003cbr\u003e a barbed cocoon coiled around\u003cbr\u003e a fanged white flower of bone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039839043824,"sku":"9781937875657","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937875657_p0.jpg?v=1763665456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937875657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}