{"product_id":"casualty-reports-poems-9780822966869","title":"Casualty Reports: Poems","description":"Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched, Martha Collins's eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous book. She focuses here on race, gun violence, recent wars, and, in an extended sequence, the history of coal--first as her ancestors mined it, then from its geological origins to our ecologically threatened present. \u003ci\u003eCasualty Reports\u003c\/i\u003e is both indictment and lament, a work that speaks forcefully to our troubled history and our present times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Collins \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of ten previous collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eBecause What Else Could I Do\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. Previous volumes include \u003ci\u003eBlue Front\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAdmit One: An American Scrapbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and the paired volumes \u003ci\u003eDay unto Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNight unto Night.\u003c\/i\u003e She has also cotranslated four volumes of Vietnamese poetry and coedited several anthologies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383046115602,"sku":"9780822966869","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49a1b8f5-04c8-48fd-bd5e-6c05624d373a.jpg?v=1728776721","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/casualty-reports-poems-9780822966869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}