{"product_id":"the-rain-barrel-frank-ormsby-9781930630895","title":"The Rain Barrel","description":"Frank Ormsby's enchanting new volume, \u003ci\u003e The Rain Barrel, \u003c\/i\u003e allows us to see with eyes \"still wet from the Creation.\" He is a \"local fire-god with a tongue of flowers.\" His sense of the folkloric and country life in general is self-assured and true, but he also writes with flair and insight on such subjects as art and artists. He has mastered the Haiku, the erotic poem, and, throughout his storied career, the wistful but unsentimental elegy: \"The whole season has come to this: \/ a holding on so that the letting go \/ might seem to us like chance.\" The title sequence ties these themes together in a meditation on the object, its uses and symbols, until in the last poem of the sequence he reflects on how like the barrel we are, fulfilling our roles as we deteriorate beyond repair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Ormsby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1930630891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781930630895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wake Forest University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2020\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 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2020 pg. 177","brand":"Frank Ormsby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867111674111,"sku":"9781930630895","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5809771-2d5f-43f7-8c81-d5b699ae532f.jpg?v=1747453920","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rain-barrel-frank-ormsby-9781930630895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}