{"product_id":"keepers-voice","title":"Keeper's Voice","description":"Meeting a local woman at a service project in Appalachia, the narrator of Mike Carson's poem \"\"Muse\"\" hears from her \"\"Those words, iron twang of loss,\"\" that \"\"cut soft ideas of beauty out.\"\" Carson's lean, spare collection \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper's Voice\u003c\/i\u003e unflinchingly engages those hard ideas of beauty, of goodness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDirect and often colloquial in their language and traditional in their forms - blank verse, quatrains, sonnets - the poems' voices arise from a wide range of viewpoints and situations: from an altar boy thawing a frozen gate lock while early Mass goes on without him, to a returning Vietnam veteran who takes up bull riding; from a boy calling cows in the pre-dawn dark, to a narrator providing instructions for teaching crows to talk; from a new cop, a Christian who must shoot to kill in a ghetto bar, to a family discovering the ashes of a stillborn child among a dead sister's belongings. One poem interweaves locker room slogans with phrases from the Requiem Mass for a friend who died playing football; another centers around a single shout from a wife to her husband threatened by an untethered bull.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRefreshingly straightforward, yet suffused with weight, maturity, and passion, \u003ci\u003eThe Keeper's Voice\u003c\/i\u003e projects a wise and uncompromising vision.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807626707288,"sku":"9780807136188","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780807136188_338a90a4-f40d-44bc-8202-1d0dd64f9769.jpg?v=1781725522","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/keepers-voice","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}