{"product_id":"requiem-for-the-orchard-oliver-de-la-paz-9781931968744","title":"Requiem for the Orchard","description":"These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel \/ was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck \/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties\"or because of them\"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, \/ letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. \"Martin Espada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver de la Paz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1931968748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931968744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Akron Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.20d","brand":"Oliver de la Paz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937515340031,"sku":"9781931968744","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7457df13-5020-4ea7-a5d8-71be277a8fdf.jpg?v=1681430526","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/requiem-for-the-orchard-oliver-de-la-paz-9781931968744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}