{"product_id":"in-the-volcanos-mouth-miriam-bird-greenberg-9780822964339","title":"In the Volcano's Mouth","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2017 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e from the Texas Institute of Letters \u003cbr\u003e Miriam Bird Greenberg's stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth (\"I'd spent my childhood \/ in a house made of bees; on hot days honey \/\/ dripped through cracks in the ceiling,\" she writes). Yet these capacious, exquisitely tensioned poems are rooted in Greenberg's experiences hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across North America, or draw from her informal interviews with contemporary nomads, hobos, and others living on society's edges. Beneath their surface runs a current of violence, whether at the hands of fate or men: she writes \"Everyone knows \/\/ what happens to women \/\/ who hitchhike, constantly \/\/ trying a door to the other world made of lake \/ bottom or low forest, abandoned house \/\/ even wild animals \/ have rejected.\" The result is a queering of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist Frank Stanford at once vulnerable and canny. Richly textured, \u003ci\u003eIn the Volcano's Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary portrait of life on the enchanted margins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miriam Bird Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822964333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822964339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Miriam Bird Greenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926548873471,"sku":"9780822964339","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_20653739-b178-475d-8ae9-5477bdc89eac.jpg?v=1681083687","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-volcanos-mouth-miriam-bird-greenberg-9780822964339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}