{"product_id":"goat-footed-gods-9780887487088","title":"Goat-Footed Gods","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that center on the sinister American cryptid, the Goatman of Pope Lick.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her sixth collection \u003ci\u003eGoat-Footed Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of the infamous Goatman of Pope Lick, identified by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the deadliest cryptids in America. The Goatman or Pope Lick Monster, a legendary creature long rumored to roam the woods around Driskell's Kentucky home, is alleged to have caused the deaths of at least five young people at Pope Lick Trestle, a railroad bridge with a ninety-foot drop at its center. The Goatman lyrics are braided with poems about Driskell's child's traumatic injury from a fall. Always at the heart of Driskell's poetry is her insistence that the path to the sacred is found not through the doctrine of ancient gods, but in walking clear-eyed through the dark woods of our historical past and exploring the never-ending wonder of the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning poet, essayist, and teacher, \u003cb\u003e Kathleen Driskell \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five collections of poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, River Teeth, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Appalachian Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other literary magazines. She is chair of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183256731922,"sku":"9780887487088","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83c2b54b-95a4-4892-8cfd-57d11d31cfd8.jpg?v=1744460823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goat-footed-gods-9780887487088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}