{"product_id":"river-hymns-by-tyree-daye","title":"Daye, Tyree: River Hymns","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican Poetry Review \/ Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new ways to think about family and community, new ways to wrestle with my own landscape and legacy.\"--Gabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize, \u003cem\u003eRiver Hymns\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader into the complex lineage of the values, contradictions, and secrets of a southern family. These poems reflect on the rich legacy of a young black man's ancestry: what to use, what to leave behind, and what haunts. And Tyree Daye can write the blues one moment and conjure great humor the next, as when he says, \"I knew God was a man because he put a baby in Mary without her permission.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31758216790039,"sku":"9780983300854","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_2be32a04-f717-4bae-a623-247bb8cccc90.jpg?v=1599952516","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/river-hymns-by-tyree-daye","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}