{"product_id":"9781941561034","title":"Jar of Pennies","description":"\"Sean Karns will break your heart. The narrator of this collection makes starkly vivid the hardscrabble background of his life: an unhappy mother who works at the slaughterhouse, a father whose farm fails, a boy who loves both but plays the piano to escape. A group of poems referencing the likes of Walker\u003cbr\u003eEvans and James Agee enlarges the context considerably. There is a doomed affair, a brilliant dream sequence about the father, and a field of\u003cbr\u003e\"cornstalks...flutter[ing] their death rattle.\" Deeply sad, profoundly moving,\u003cbr\u003eand seductively musical, these poems are a testament to survival and art.\" - KELLY CHERRY, author of The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems","brand":"New American Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064646942960,"sku":"9781941561034","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941561034_p0.jpg?v=1763755714","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941561034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}