{"product_id":"keep-and-give-away-susan-meyers-9781570036705","title":"Keep and Give Away: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems of discovery and loss pull the magical from the mundane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeep and Give Away\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss, relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the poems of \u003ci\u003eKeep and Give Away \u003c\/i\u003emove along the rifts between the past and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world, where birds are \"yeses quickening the air\" and the sky can \"lap you up, and up.\" In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection, contraries, and--most of all--love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Meyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570036705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570036705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.92w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Winner","brand":"Susan Meyers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190814077183,"sku":"9781570036705","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_64357c22-c292-4396-8546-6284fa42b1b4.jpg?v=1690872511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keep-and-give-away-susan-meyers-9781570036705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}