{"product_id":"sparks-from-a-nine-pound-hammer-poems-9780807126943","title":"Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: Poems","description":"Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great delight in defying that dissolution, and come upon a thing redemptive and clarifying: the fact of love. In a world that \"doesn't really care \/ whether we live or die,\" Steve Scafidi writes, \"tell it you do and why.\" From the unthinkable to the quietly heroic, somehow we have emerged. \u003ci\u003eSparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates that fact most of all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteve Scafidi was born and raised in Virginia and earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at Arizona State University. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, New Virginia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He is a cabinetmaker and lives in Summit Point, West Virginia, with his wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Isabella. This is his first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917859918098,"sku":"9780807126943","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_815ff1bc-b546-4c06-94e5-56fa84442761.jpg?v=1738871726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sparks-from-a-nine-pound-hammer-poems-9780807126943","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}