{"product_id":"ghosting-steve-mccown-9781733480406","title":"Ghosting","description":"Selected poems - When Steve McCown finally gathered together the pages for this book he was probably a bit surprised to realize he had been a poet for the better part of his life. What possessed him all those years? A courage and curiosity to see where distant roads and nearby doorways might lead. An eye for the authentic and for what matters most. An urge to find words--the most precise, most meaningful ones. A need to structure small individual works into the framework of an unfolding life story. Many of the revelations he provides in these poems are now mine.-Emilio DeGrazia, Emeritus Professor of English, Winona State UniversityIn the middle of Steve McCown's luminous book of poetry, there's a hurricane. After the storm, the poet's eye catches a bright yellow hummingbird feeder still unbroken amid the wreckage: \"Its bright inner life, in the gloom, \/was still visible, alluring.\/ We-displaced from our home, \/adrift on the streets-hovered near.\" This graceful book performs a kind of poetic salvage operation, rescuing small moments of beauty and meaning from the wreckage of life and the rising flood of time.Rob Hardy, Poet Laureate of Northfield, Minneso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve McCown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733480404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733480406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Up on Big Rock Poetry Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Steve McCown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175459664127,"sku":"9781733480406","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43dcdeb6-6095-46ec-bb2c-7d2245711bab.jpg?v=1771333867","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ghosting-steve-mccown-9781733480406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}