{"product_id":"appalachia-poems-9780374526245","title":"Appalachia: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e, the second in \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and the third began with \u003ci\u003eChickamauga\u003c\/i\u003e and continued with \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAppalachia\u003c\/i\u003e is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e traced \"Wright's journey from the soil to the stars\" and \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e \"lovingly detailed\" our world and made \"a visionary map of the world beyond\" (James Longenbach, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e), this final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Wright\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded the National Book Award in Poetry in 1983 for Country Music and the 1995 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Chickamauga. He teaches at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491696709906,"sku":"9780374526245","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18c0a5fd-41f3-415a-b996-b7d2ff7853da.jpg?v=1730550267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/appalachia-poems-9780374526245","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}