{"product_id":"brother-salvage-poems-9780822959359","title":"Brother Salvage: Poems","description":"The name of the title poem--\"Brother Salvage: a genizah,\" provides a skeleton key to unlock the powerful forces that bind Rick Hilles's collection. A genizah is a depository, or hiding place, for sacred texts. It performs a double function: to keep hallowed objects safe and to prevent more destructive forces from circulating and causing further harm. Brother Salvage serves exactly this purpose. The poems are heartrending and incisive, preserving stories and lives that should not be forgotten. Yet, through the poet's eloquent craft, painful histories and images are beautifully and luminously contained. Like scholars sifting through ancient genizahs in search of spiritual and historical insights, readers immersed in Brother Salvage will find, at the heart of the book, the most sacred entity: hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRick Hilles, associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eBrother Salvage, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the 2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the 2006 Foreword Poetry Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eA Map of the Lost World, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. He has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and a Camargo Fellowship. He lives in Nashville.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51182802927890,"sku":"9780822959359","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b7e059e3-3c22-42b3-8994-7bbaacf79c2e.jpg?v=1744447192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brother-salvage-poems-9780822959359","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}