{"product_id":"the-salt-hour-j-p-white-9780252069567","title":"The Salt Hour","description":"With this dazzling collection, J. P. White embarks on a windswept journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and pull of the mind at odds with circumstance, these bracing poems plumb the depths of the sea and of the human heart in muscular, graceful language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Salt Hour\u003c\/i\u003e wends its way from Lake Erie to the Sea of Cortez, from the Aegean Sea to ice-choked Baffin Bay. From old sailors on the graveyard watch to a young boy clinging to the sailboat's pulpit to boats dousing their sails before the blue-black storm, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Hour\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the very salt breath of the sea and the poet's need for connection with the shore. As a restless traveler who takes us from England and Russia to Nicaragua and the Caribbean, White pushes beyond the boundaries of the lyric\/narrative tradition to let more of the world, more flux of the larger human condition rush in. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drenched in color almost achingly vivid, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Hour\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary catch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"J.P. White is a poet of grace, authority, and accomplishment . . . again and again  he] arrives at the hard-word eloquence from which the most enduring lyrics must be formed. White is also a richly various poet, elegiac, political, and literary by turns. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Hour\/i\u0026gt; is a very fine collection indeed.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-- David Wojahn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. P. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252069560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252069567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 5.73w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2001 pg. 55","brand":"J. P. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079352316159,"sku":"9780252069567","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_993757f7-3ad8-4afc-92bf-d6383169fa22.jpg?v=1685480644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-salt-hour-j-p-white-9780252069567","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}