{"product_id":"what-travels-with-us-poems-paperback","title":"What Travels with Us: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDarnell Arnoult\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a storyteller's timing and the emotional range of a singer, Darnell Arnoult in her debut collection offers readers a stirring string of poems about the people of Fieldale, Virginia. A planned community founded in the Virginia foothills by Marshall Fields in the early 1900s to support his textile mill, Fieldale was populated by transplanted Appalachian mountain folk. Arnoult herself grew up there, a third-generation resident and among the first generation to go to college. She took away with her the oral history of her home, and in What Travels With Us she captures in poetic form the townspeople's voices, both remembered and imagined. Personal, poignant, and witty, Arnoult's poems look back as they move forward, demonstrating how we are always creating ourselves anew from the experiences we carry with us. \u003cbr\u003ePearly Rakes complained \u003cbr\u003ethat on long winter nights\u003cbr\u003eGracie and Charlie\u003cbr\u003ekept the parlor lamp\u003cbr\u003eburning too long, \u003cbr\u003eburning up her kerosene.\u003cbr\u003ePearly claimed \u003cbr\u003eshe courted and married \u003cbr\u003ethe same man twice\u003cbr\u003e and never burned up\u003cbr\u003enearly so much.\u003cbr\u003eCharlie scratched his head.\u003cbr\u003eTold Pearly, \u003cbr\u003eYou musta done most of\u003cbr\u003eyour courting in the dark.\u003cbr\u003e -- from \"Boarding House\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Southwest Review, Southern Cultures, Southern Exposure, Asheville Poetry Review, and Nantahala Review, among other journals. She lives with her husband on a small farm outside Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches creative writing throughout the Southeast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.94 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2006)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451342733490,"sku":"9780807129890","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f0cf9fb99e1a8734ffdbbd3106e03cbc.webp?v=1778794405","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/what-travels-with-us-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}