{"product_id":"family-portrait-with-scythe-james-owens-9781947504202","title":"Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems","description":"James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the \"wet bone.\" Stumbling with a boy's \"ignorant gravity,\" Owens cannot right the \"unbalanced accounts\" of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriage--nor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariously--in belonging \"on the brief earth,\" in parsing spring from grief, in \"the good story of the body\" whose light becomes \"the shine of spirit.\" A master poet works this crescent blade, a master who embraces life's whole catastrophe as equally as he farewells it past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Owens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1947504207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947504202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bottom Dog Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d","brand":"James Owens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47759903391999,"sku":"9781947504202","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23876e48-ee6b-404a-a3e3-8fa8291bb940.jpg?v=1765513024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-portrait-with-scythe-james-owens-9781947504202","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}