{"product_id":"basin-ghosts-jesse-graves-9781937875534","title":"Basin Ghosts: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a chapbook of original poems by Jesse Graves, author of \u003ci\u003eTennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine\u003c\/i\u003e. Many poems in \u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e address places and themes that resonated in Graves's first collection, which won both the Weatherford Award and the Appalachian Writers' Association Book of the Year Award in Poetry. The poems in \u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e examine life in the rural South, changes that have occurred over generations in communities there, and the ways in which the past lives on through memory and attachment to the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrace Notes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeora never walked the quarter-mile of red dust \u003cbr\u003eto her bench at Big Sinks schoolhouse \u003cbr\u003ewithout carrying the hand-sewn satchel \u003cbr\u003eshe used for an accordion case. \u003cbr\u003eThe notes came to her out of some darkness, \u003cbr\u003ea cavity just inside her ear \u003cbr\u003ewhere the curve of a sound pushed through \u003cbr\u003eher fingers and into the buttons of that strange machine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere did the accordion come from? \u003cbr\u003eThe imprint read Vienna Austria 1904 \u003cbr\u003eand how it arrived to her in Capps Creek, \u003cbr\u003eTennessee, the middle of the middle of nowhere \u003cbr\u003ewill pass like the mystery of cloudburst, \u003cbr\u003esome graceful symmetry beyond this world \u003cbr\u003eand beyond the next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesse Graves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1937875539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937875534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Jesse Graves","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540621062399,"sku":"9781937875534","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46831016-c895-458d-986e-d44f045364ce.jpg?v=1700588931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/basin-ghosts-jesse-graves-9781937875534","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}