{"product_id":"times-beach-9780268017859","title":"Times Beach","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Shoptaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268017859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2015 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Shoptaw\u003c\/b\u003e teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39946326835315,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_28680b76-de8c-4d7a-835b-e9db54763b0a.jpg?v=1648314247","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/times-beach-9780268017859","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}