{"product_id":"stone-essy-what-it-do","title":"Stone, Essy: What It Done to Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eLost Horse Press,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 01, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci\u003eWhat It Done to Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, by Essy Stone, is a poetry of narrative tension, sense of place, and with a wide-angle scan of lyrical language. There is a landscape here, the depiction of Appalachia, a beautiful backdrop of loves and struggles with violence, poverty and all its minions such as drugs and crime, and its religion. Stone has created a southern gothic for today, a testament, a collection that could be the mythology that we find at the intersection of flesh and spirit, or maybe it's the reveal to a hard-times question like, \"Why does the Devil get here faster than God every time?\" This is a tough community that Stone, with a deft touch of empathy and eloquence, shows us and we begin to know these folk. These poems are understated but highly charged vignettes from the hollers, a shadow world of the embattled folk who bear up and just do what needs done without apology. This is a stunning debut collection, and it is our introduction to an amazing poet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817219829783,"sku":"9780996858465","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780996858465.jpg?v=1771026995","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/stone-essy-what-it-do","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}