{"product_id":"river-hymns-9780983300854","title":"River Hymns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new ways to think about family and community, new ways to wrestle with my own landscape and legacy.\"--Gabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize, \u003cem\u003eRiver Hymns\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader into the complex lineage of the values, contradictions, and secrets of a southern family. These poems reflect on the rich legacy of a young black man's ancestry: what to use, what to leave behind, and what haunts. And Tyree Daye can write the blues one moment and conjure great humor the next, as when he says, \"I knew God was a man because he put a baby in Mary without her permission.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"Southern Silence\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI've only trusted\u003cbr\u003efour white people in my life\u003cbr\u003emy mother showed me\u003cbr\u003ethe ropes early I'm afraid\u003cbr\u003eto untie myself get down\u003cbr\u003efrom this branch\u003cbr\u003eeven the Jesus on the wall of the church old and swaying\u003cbr\u003ehas something\u003cbr\u003eup his sun-touched sleeves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTyree Daye\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have been published in \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner, Nashville Review, Four Way Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/em\u003e. He was awarded the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018 and The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. He lives in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTyree Daye: Tyree Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Nashville Review, Four Way Review, Ploughshares. He was awarded the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018 and The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"American Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527468618002,"sku":"9780983300854","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fcb03dfd-618f-475d-9f8a-ed29bb41e79e.jpg?v=1731302533","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/river-hymns-9780983300854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}