{"product_id":"hawks-on-wires-poems-2005-2010-paperback","title":"Hawks on Wires: Poems, 2005-2010 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDave Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, \u003ci\u003eHawks on Wires\u003c\/i\u003e stages both mortal and comic dramas that speak to the poet's autumnal acceptance of himself and the South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoems of growing up engaged with the people of the coast and woodlands--boatmen, hunters, crabbers, sawyers, and tough-mouthed waitresses--celebrate the once strong but now tenuous threads of community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraveling through the latter twentieth century, Smith presents matters of family, sex, and race during a turbulent and historic era in southern history. Assassinations, withdrawal of religious prohibitions, violent cultural convulsions, and even the diminished meaning of the word \"southern\" shake the poet's personal identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmith uses the language of an ordinary man seeking meaning as the memory of events, carried over a lifetime, now begs for explanation. Despite the inevitable displacements and disappointments of identity, which remain mysterious, Smith finds optimism in life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDave Smith is the author of many books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and memoir, including \u003ci\u003eThe Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLittle Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems, 1992-2004.\u003c\/i\u003e Former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, \u003c\/i\u003e he is now Elliott Coleman Professor of Poetry and chairman of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 5.54 x 8.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757677084960,"sku":"9780807142318","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/35edb60c7a094935f97bf15e4032780d.webp?v=1780108651","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/hawks-on-wires-poems-2005-2010-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}