{"product_id":"bryant-phillip-s-the-promispb","title":"Bryant, Phillip S.: The Promised Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eNodin Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 10, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Philip Bryant's new collection the urban hum of Chicago's South Side meets the pastoral beauty of small-town Minnesota life-and also its long lonely winters. Sounds and smells from the Deep South permeate the snowbanks and the dazzling riffs of Coltrane and Bird brighten the gray November skies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBryant describes the dark exhilaration of receiving as an untested youth his first switch-blade knife and praises an ex-girlfriend who in trashing his work with savage honesty reminds him that what a poem says actually matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rhythms are always musical and the playful street talk cannot disguise the fact that we're in the presence of an sober-eyed romantic who uses the cadences of the blues to summon the beauty at the core of this often harsh world we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41624963612695,"sku":"9781947237148","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/img_proxy_533x_f8b22aef-7201-40d9-a32d-a4b633c2ff6d.jpg?v=1774050921","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bryant-phillip-s-the-promispb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}