{"product_id":"drop-zone-gail-peck-9781881515050","title":"Drop Zone: Poems","description":"\"With this...full-length collection, that strong knife-sharp voice...draws together the stories of a woman's confrontation with loss, betrayal, disappointment, and passion, rendered in language both plain-spoken and powerful. There is no fancy language here, no turning away from what demands to be said straight out. Whether they take as their subject the lost baby who \"weighed a pound and lived through the night,\" the neighbor whose husband has Alzheimer's, or the lines running across the poet's face as she stares in the mirror, these poems sting like the cold metal of the harmonica the poet runs between her lips in \"Music,\" acknowledging that she knows nothing of how to play it or any other musical instrument. What she does know is music of another kind, her own woman's music, \"the pressure of one thing against another, how hollowness makes sound.\" --Kathryn Stripling Byer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRACING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter my father's car \u003cbr\u003ehit the wall and flipped over, \u003cbr\u003esomeone used to such things \u003cbr\u003emust have run to the track \u003cbr\u003eexpecting the best, \u003cbr\u003eand others must have sobbed \u003cbr\u003ewhen they placed their hands \u003cbr\u003eon his still chest. \u003cbr\u003eAunt Carry showed us the clipping \u003cbr\u003eyears after it happened; \u003cbr\u003ewe'd stopped in Spartanburg to visit, \u003cbr\u003eand she gave me his birth certificate to keep. \u003cbr\u003eOn the way home I said, \u003cbr\u003eIf you live dangerously, \u003cbr\u003eyou can die dangerously. \u003cbr\u003eMother didn't hear. \u003cbr\u003eShe was saying \u003ci\u003eI never wished your father any harm\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eBur I wondered after what I heard \u003cbr\u003eof nights she sat inside a car \u003cbr\u003ewith the motor running, \u003cbr\u003eand him behind another woman's door, \u003cbr\u003ethe liquor she rushed to the drain \u003cbr\u003euntil finally love was as thin as the sheets \u003cbr\u003eshe threw her suitcase on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gail Peck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1881515052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781881515050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trp: The University Press of Shsu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.28d","brand":"Gail Peck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519572586751,"sku":"9781881515050","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de8a2850-c7ec-4035-9009-9feb73116d9d.jpg?v=1778737760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drop-zone-gail-peck-9781881515050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}