{"product_id":"desert-apocrypha-9781735151670","title":"Desert Apocrypha","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 32nd Annual Reading the West Book Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Zach Hively moved back to New Mexico, he found his new home not in the city but in the high desert, where things make a different sort of sense. Over two years, he wrote these five suites of poems from that place-feral and introspective, playful and mindful-and made a book that feels as analog as the desert itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems \"are so richly spare, so warmly restrained that metaphor replaces stone and distance as it flows from the underground as apocrypha, as products of authenticity, outside the canon, saying through him what only he can say\" (V. B. Price).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHively, Zach:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Zach Hively writes poetry and creative nonfiction. His Fool's Gold column has twice earned first place from the Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies awards, and he has won a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers' Association of America. He writes music and performs with Oxygen on Embers and is the author of WILD EXPECTATIONS, with photography by Magdalena Lily McCarson. He lives near Abiquiu, New Mexico.","brand":"Casa Urraca Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496579666194,"sku":"9781735151670","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86fe5bef-1223-4fe1-8c94-e139f41d0b5e.jpg?v=1730697167","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/desert-apocrypha-9781735151670","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}