{"product_id":"american-chicken-david-bond-9780595440733","title":"American Chicken","description":"Thirty years later, striding a hypotenuse\/of bare earth between two sidewalks here\/at the university, I can't explain the times;\/Abbie Hoffman high jumps a velvet aisle\/rope in federal court and Old Main\/burns boundless in the night like\/an ecstatic cult of images because\/we did or did not love the Fatherland. \u003cp\u003e From \u003ci\u003e\"American Chicken\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Striking imagery and precise diction are characteristics of American Chicken, from the eloquence of the elegiac \"Rend Lake at Sunset,\" a poetic reflection on the southern Illinois mining landscape where \"hills of scoured coal smolder,\" to the tragi-comic nostalgia and regret inherent in the title poem as the narrator envies those who made the hard Vietnam choices he feels he evaded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The poems in this very accessible book won for its author the Friends of Morris Library Delta Award, a regional prize presented to Bond \"in recognition of his evocative poetry describing the blue collar working man and the Midwest, giving the common man a unique place in the literature of southern Illinois.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Bond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595440738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595440733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Bond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435563430143,"sku":"9780595440733","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bff936ad-daa6-419d-9a6d-0b2ca1f4a176.jpg?v=1777151212","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-chicken-david-bond-9780595440733","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}