{"product_id":"held-and-firmly-bound-9781942081104","title":"Held and Firmly Bound","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHeld and Firmly Bound\u003c\/em\u003e, Nathalie Anderson explores the implications of a family document - a statement of indebtedness between the races in pre-Civil War Charleston. How has a white Carolinian come to owe a substantial sum to Betsey Garrett, identified on the document as a free person of color? How today do we respond to the document's resonating phrase, holding the debtor \"held and firmly bound\" to repay that debt? Anderson's poems investigate variations on these themes, inviting readers to find reflected in these circumstances our own longing, terror, perplexity, magnanimity, and shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnderson, Nathalie F.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"Nathalie Anderson is the author of four books of poetry - Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, and Stain - and libretti for four operas. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, and The Recorder. She was raised in Columbia SC, and educated - at Agnes Scott, Georgia State, and Emory University - in Atlanta. A 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Nathalie Anderson serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia; and she directs the Program in Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.\"","brand":"Muddy Ford Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446976221458,"sku":"9781942081104","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d378d72-2aca-4328-9a7b-38dcc41bb067.jpg?v=1729711678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/held-and-firmly-bound-9781942081104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}