{"product_id":"half-promised-land-pa-9780395382561","title":"Half Promised Land Pa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world displayed in the poems of Thomas Lux is a fairly dangerous place, a half promised land, a region where turtles languish of thirst, where a lifebuoy crawls with spiders, where a moving car hits a moving moose and both survive, where what tends to terrify us tends also to make us feel safe, where \"rattlesnakes feel at home,\" where \"your belief in justice\/merges with your belief in dreams.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLux, Thomas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTHOMAS LUX holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry and is the director of the McEver Visiting Writers Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three NEA grants and the Kingsley Tufts Award and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51778439053586,"sku":"9780395382561","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f64a5471-d3b7-4350-87cd-99e6a719941f.jpg?v=1765364532","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/half-promised-land-pa-9780395382561","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}