{"product_id":"nasty-water-collected-new-orleans-poems-9781946160355","title":"Nasty Water: Collected New Orleans Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Nolan describes this collection of his New Orleans poems as an \"autobiography of place,\" for which he selected fifty poems written over a span of fifty years focused on his native city. Rarely are readers offered a retrospective of both the lyrics and narratives inspired by a writer's singular hometown, and this book is a companion volume to Nolan's recent \u003cem\u003eFlight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy\u003c\/em\u003e. Some of these poems are arias, such as \"Nasty Water,\" while others are portraits of a Creole childhood, elegies about family members, jazz riffs on local culture, and commemorations of historic events, from Martin Luther King's assassination through Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill. Yet these lyrical, often revealing meditations on New Orleans are always tuned to music. Because this is how New Orleanians best celebrate the joys and survive the tribulations of life in their city: by telling stories and singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNolan, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - James Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, is a widely published fiction writer, poet, essayist, and translator. His eleventh book, Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy, won the 2018 Next-Generation Indie Book Award for Best Memoir. His fiction includes You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction), the novel Higher Ground (awarded a Faulkner\/Wisdom Gold Medal), and Perpetual Care: Stories. He has been the recipient of an N.E.A. grant and two Fulbright fellowships, and has taught at universities in San Francisco, Florida, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing, as well as in New Orleans.","brand":"University of Louisiana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525217653010,"sku":"9781946160355","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecfd1beb-16d7-48ac-8c6a-a08629828360.jpg?v=1731208754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nasty-water-collected-new-orleans-poems-9781946160355","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}