{"product_id":"rift-forrest-hamer-9781884800757","title":"Rift: Poems","description":"Rift, the third collection from poet and psychologist Forrest Hamer, engages hauntingly with separations and reconciliations that are both personal and socio-historical. Hamer draws on his American experience--including his youth in Goldsboro, North Carolina--and his African heritage--including the tragic conflicts between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda--to investigate memories, stories, and the way in which a poem is a \"hopeful body.\" Yusef Kumunyakaa has described Hamer's poems as \"calls into our modern wilderness that demand heartfelt responses,\" and Al Young compares them to \"a Robert Johnson blues or a Thelonious Monk ballad; [they] linger in the blood long after they enter the inner eye and ear.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Forrest Hamer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1884800750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781884800757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.21w x 0.19d","brand":"Forrest Hamer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519576322303,"sku":"9781884800757","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_644c87b3-186e-4c7c-8f72-e1b112e2f7f2.jpg?v=1778737768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rift-forrest-hamer-9781884800757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}