{"product_id":"the-road-where-the-people-cried-9781732393530","title":"The Road Where the People Cried","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of poems, primarily persona poems of historical Cherokee people, about The Trail of Tears by Native American scholar and poet Geary Hobson. Cover art by Cherokee painter Janet Lamon Smith. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHobson, Geary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Geary Hobson is a retired professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. His areas of teaching and scholarship are Native American literature, American literature and American Studies, and creative writing. He taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1988 to 2016. He is the author of a novel, The Last of the Ofos (2000), a book of poetry, Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990), the editor of the anthology, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979), the co-editor of The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (2010), and a collection of short stories, Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011). He has published poems, fiction, critical essays, and book reviews in more than one-hundred magazines and anthologies. Of Cherokee and Quapaw\/Chickasaw ancestry, he has been involved in Native literary studies and teaching for more than forty years, as well as with several national Native American literary organizations. In 2003, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.","brand":"Mongrel Empire Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494184489234,"sku":"9781732393530","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53280f3b-ea37-4008-b762-76b3064eaee4.jpg?v=1730661069","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-road-where-the-people-cried-9781732393530","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}