{"product_id":"amasa-speaker-factory-chad-faries-9798896560845","title":"Amasa Speaker Factory: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmasa Speaker Factory \u003c\/em\u003ewanders Michigan's Upper Peninsula with a mining helmet, a pickaxe, and a dizzying soundtrack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChad Faries sifts through abandoned mines, family history, and the quiet damage of loving Iron County, Michigan--a place that keeps trying to break him. His poetry mines the U.P.'s economic decline, stubborn resilience, and awkward small-town rituals, balancing bleak humor with bruised affection. Both a personal autopsy and a regional love letter, Faries proves that identity, like iron, is forged under pressure and usually leaves a mess behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAmasa Speak Factory \u003c\/em\u003eis a brilliant Book, a literature of roller rinks and huffy bikes and homegrown weed. Chad Faries explores a far-northern Midwest where wilderness has been decades reclaiming mine ruins, radio waves reach through decades as your sweet, tired town 'calls you home with a radio dial, ' through speakers from those same years with voices that will grow with long grass between railroad ties.\" -- Jonathan Johnson, author of \u003cem\u003ePine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant and beguiling; this book is magnetic as the Yooper iron that binds it. As a U.P. rock opera, \u003cem\u003eAmasa Speaker Factory\u003c\/em\u003e is a tantalizing mindmeld memory--divine, devilish, hardscrabble, tumultuous reckoned life--pierced with the cold flames of youthful gains shredding loss. The heart skips less beats when we up and lose ourselves.\" -- Alison Adelle Hdge Coke, author of \u003cem\u003eLook at This Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAD FARIES\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Border Will Be Soon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e and the memoir \u003cem\u003eDrive Me Out of My Mind\u003c\/em\u003e. He divides his time between Iron River, Michigan and Thunderbolt, Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Faries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798896560845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Chad Faries","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453282660607,"sku":"9798896560845","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73c86636-43cd-4a3b-ab8e-833ff764cae9.jpg?v=1777299310","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amasa-speaker-factory-chad-faries-9798896560845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}