{"product_id":"tennessee-landscape-with-blighted-pine-poems-volume-28-paperback","title":"Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine: Poems Volume 28 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Graves\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Wimberley\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTenth Anniversary Expanded Edition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst released in 2011, \u003ci\u003eTennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine\u003c\/i\u003e was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers' Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eTennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine\u003c\/i\u003e take part in many of the traditions of lyric poetry, including elegies for lost loved ones, odes to the beauty of family and the natural world, expressed through a range of poetic forms and techniques. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition includes twelve new poems and an introduction by Matthew Wimberley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003e\"Emissaries\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome mornings when I'm reading \u003cbr\u003eearly, no light yet but the table lamp, \u003cbr\u003emy left hand will run through scales \u003cbr\u003ealong the spine of the open book. \u003cbr\u003eMy hands keep their own remembrance \u003cbr\u003eburied in fine grooves of flesh. \u003cbr\u003eThe fingers turn over ignitions, faucets, \u003cbr\u003ealways attuned to their proper force, \u003cbr\u003eknuckles never breaking things \u003cbr\u003eunless my brain overpowers them. \u003cbr\u003eThey've discovered spectacular terrains, \u003cbr\u003esoft enclosures I can never enter again. \u003cbr\u003eI send them ahead as scouts for survey, \u003cbr\u003eemissaries that flip the lights \u003cbr\u003ein every dark hallway of the future.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJESSE GRAVES grew up in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, where his ancestors settled in the 1780s. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eTennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBasin Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpecter Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, and has edited several volumes of poetry and scholarship, including \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Poetry Anthology \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConversations with Robert Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Graves received the 2014 Philip H. Freund Prize for Creative Writing from Cornell University, and the 2015 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2015, he was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462176260274,"sku":"9781680032673","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f1a625e4ddc0ecec33fbeb54de7f2c1e.jpg?v=1778963764","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/tennessee-landscape-with-blighted-pine-poems-volume-28-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}