{"product_id":"hawks-on-wires-poems-2005-2010-9780807142301","title":"Hawks on Wires: Poems, 2005-2010","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dave Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\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.","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47599449866391,"sku":"9780807142301","price":5653.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807142301.webp?v=1775004482","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hawks-on-wires-poems-2005-2010-9780807142301","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}