{"product_id":"flatlands-ruth-williams-9781625579898","title":"Flatlands","description":"Flatlands, Ruth's first full-length poetry collection, explores how her perspective has been indelibly shaped by her state of birth, Nebraska. \"Some writers approach the Nebraska plains as a big, empty other into which they may imagine. I understand the appeal of that mythology. But in Ruth Williams gorgeous new collection, Flatlands, the landscape is as alive as the plains truly are, and serves as both a generating place and quixotic companion to Williams's subtle, precise speaker. Throughout the poems, Williams images are beautifully wrought and full of surprises: a salmon being filleted opens like \" a girl's coral dress come undone and the \" night heat\" of spent fireworks sleeps in the hands of children who are \" ready to knock.\" I love this book-it's musical syncopation, the tight, clean transparency of the poems' lines. I think Willa Cather, the collection's genius loci, would admire Williams's work, recognizing its fundamental truthfulness. Which is about the highest compliment I have to give.\" -Erin Belieu, Author of Slant Six, Co-founder, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625579896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625579898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Ruth Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519016939775,"sku":"9781625579898","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e547f0f5-fead-440d-8180-352ae11fbd96.jpg?v=1778736514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flatlands-ruth-williams-9781625579898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}