{"product_id":"ramshackle-ode-9780544649675","title":"Ramshackle Ode","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Containing joy and suffering side by side, \u003cem\u003eRamshackle Ode\u003c\/em\u003e offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, \u003cem\u003eRamshackle Ode\u003c\/em\u003e presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith Leonard's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. A winner of the Beacon Street Prize and scholarships at Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conference, he is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Indiana University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503467499794,"sku":"9780544649675","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89da0059-1af3-423f-961d-b797cf3fefa0.jpg?v=1730792165","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ramshackle-ode-9780544649675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}