{"product_id":"bookers-point-megan-grumbling-9781574416343","title":"Booker's Point: Volume 23","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2015.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Book Award for Poetry, Maine Literary Awards, 2017.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bernard A. Booker, old Maine codger and unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, knew the right ways to dig an eight-foot hole, build a maple sugar house out of a water heater, and snatch good white granite from other people's back lots. The wry Yankee woodsman is the subject of \u003ci\u003eBooker's Point, \u003c\/i\u003ean oral history-inspired portrait-in-verse. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, this collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England, meditations on home and elders, and, above all, the pleasures of a good story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Some Kind of Hunter\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He coaxed a pregnant woman right across \u003cbr\u003e the river, and it weren't no easy bridge. \u003cbr\u003e A cousin of an in-law, broke as dirt, \u003cbr\u003e she come up visiting from Vermont too poor \u003cbr\u003e to buy a license. Booker paid it, set \u003cbr\u003e a rifle in her hands, and took her up \u003cbr\u003e to Perkinstown, the brook side, where they come \u003cbr\u003e upon this bridge, just beams and cables, rough. \u003cbr\u003e Full six months big, a borrowed gun; to her, \u003cbr\u003e that span, it looked like one hell of a stunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Grumbling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1574416340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574416343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/05\/2016","brand":"Megan Grumbling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175433842943,"sku":"9781574416343","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39ad44ac-0005-4ac6-9853-4eaae2e48a5f.jpg?v=1771333710","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bookers-point-megan-grumbling-9781574416343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}