{"product_id":"hillbilly-guilt-roy-bentley-9780999491560","title":"Hillbilly Guilt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHillbilly Guilt \u003c\/em\u003eis populated with those whose lives aren't deemed important: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe poor and working poor of Appalachia, who live what it is to be American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that seeks to show that we are the sum of our mistakes. Not just \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe little goofs, either; but the huge, world-shattering blunders that go to the core \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof what it is to be human. The title poem \"Hillbilly Guilt\"-the frontispiece and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforward to the book as a whole-asserts moments of resilience if not Triumph, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe chance to heal if not a deliverance from the possibility of further injury: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI waved someone down who took us to a hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI recall he broke his nose. That it bled and bled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand that he wanted me to believe what he said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehappened, had happened that way. He seemed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto want not to feel what he felt at having risked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour lives for nothing. Oh, and I have to tell you: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Chevy-to-a-hospital that stopped had a Virgin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary on its curving, blue dashboard and that plastic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efigure said what it said about having a little faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems exist in a kind of \u003cem\u003eTwilight Zone\u003c\/em\u003e of expectation and hope and knowing that country by a whole bunch of names. As a survivor of the Great American Beating We Give Ourselves for Falling Short, the writer invites us to live, innocent and less so-as in the poem \"Lazarus, Later\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't get me wrong. I was in a hurry to flee the tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuick to step from one imperium of flesh into another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, I paused a short while to let my eyes adjust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot to be honored or genuflect but to let it all sink in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Bentley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0999491563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999491560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hidden River\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Roy Bentley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993836421375,"sku":"9780999491560","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_749e425a-fb13-4aef-8167-c23cf418bcb0.jpg?v=1683326601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hillbilly-guilt-roy-bentley-9780999491560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}