{"product_id":"my-back-pages-floyd-collins-9781622889204","title":"My Back Pages: The Teresa Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e Like Wordsworth's Lucy, Floyd Collins' the Teresa of \u003ci\u003eMy Back Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is memory and wound. Like Poe's Ligeia, she is myth and muse. Teresa is also flesh and blood, a woman with whom Collins had a brief but intense relationship a half-century ago, who gave his world color and texture, then animated it before disappearing into the future. She exists now in poems that are precise and allusive in their conjuring of one whose name becomes \"a byword for all things of beauty and grace.\" Collins, who has written a book on Seamus Heaney and numerous essay-reviews on contemporary poetry for \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003etakes his rightful place among our most affective poets with this lyrical sequence: \"From the ruck and maul of our humanity... \/ we rise incorruptible.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Floyd Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622889207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622889204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Floyd Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073040085247,"sku":"9781622889204","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8c577a1-3971-448c-8708-b2c4e65014b3.jpg?v=1685445447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-back-pages-floyd-collins-9781622889204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}