{"product_id":"times-beach-paperback","title":"Times Beach - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Shoptaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Review \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from the Mississippi's headwaters in Lake Itasca to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, weaving together episodes in the life of the river system--the New Madrid earthquakes, the 1927 flood, the EPA's eradication of the dioxin-laced town of Times Beach--with his own memories of growing up in the Missouri Bootheel: picking cotton, being baptized in a drainage ditch, and working in a lumber mill. Formally renovative, the poems in \u003ci\u003eTimes Beach\u003c\/i\u003e ring the changes on the big muddy place and hymn its everlasting possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Shoptaw teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134933373063,"sku":"9780268017859","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/05059c049e2b5b7d09ef4c9def427227.webp?v=1732645735","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/times-beach-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}