{"product_id":"black-sabbatical-poems-9781932511734","title":"Black Sabbatical: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of the swamp in back of Billy-Joes's pickup truck.\"--\u003ci\u003eDazed \u0026amp; Confused Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing.\"--Will Oldham, musician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare.\"--Harmony Korine, filmmaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brett Eugene Ralph can look at a woman dancing alone, 'eyes closed, lips parted, held aloft \/ in one hand half a mango, \/ a gigantic butcher knife \/ clutched in the other, ' and know immediately that she's praying.\"--Andrew Hudgins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrett Eugene Ralph\u003c\/b\u003e lives in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/18\/2009 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brett Eugene Ralph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42824622047413,"sku":"9781932511734","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1624358c-de38-4af7-a48c-2e8b2dfa9863.jpg?v=1680621844","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/black-sabbatical-poems-9781932511734","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}