{"product_id":"descent-17","title":"Descent","description":"Navigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often \"\"it's safer to stay blind.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with \u003cem\u003eMorning Train\u003c\/em\u003e, a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence \u003cem\u003eDrought Days\u003c\/em\u003e, and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the narrative of her homeland, the \u003cem\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e mythology that still haunts the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, Descent creates a fragile reconciliation between past and present, calling over and over again to celebrate being, as in the book's closing manifesto, \u003cem\u003eHere. Where I am\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807681233240,"sku":"9780807147504","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807147504_617c836c-3471-4192-ba03-938fc8553778.jpg?v=1781728223","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/descent-17","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}