{"product_id":"9780226828640-upstate","title":"The Upstate","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Turner’s \u003ci\u003eThe Upstate\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about southern Appalachia in a contemporary moment of change and development. Layering a personal lyric voice with a broader awareness of labor issues and political and ecological crises,\u003ci\u003e The Upstate \u003c\/i\u003eredefines a regional poetics as one attuned to national and global systems. These poems observe and emote, mourning acts of devastation and raging in their own quiet way against their continuation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The poems in\u003ci\u003e The Upstate\u003c\/i\u003e arise from moments of darkness and desperation, mobilizing a critical intelligence against the status quo of place and history, all while fiercely upholding belief in the role of poetry to affect these conditions. Turner’s poems weave spells around beloved places and people, yearning to shield them from destruction and to profess faith in the delicate beauties of the world at hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41027105849441,"sku":"9780226828640","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27249436.jpg?v=1721637520","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226828640-upstate","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}