{"product_id":"blacksnake-at-the-family-reunion-poems-9780807144695","title":"Blacksnake at the Family Reunion: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In Boy Story, a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem Aloft recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone -- born \u0026amp; died... then \/ a single date \/ in November -- the speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: The ampersand \/ tells the whole truth \/ and nothing but, \/ so help me God, \/ whose divine shrug \/ is expressed so \/ eloquently \/ by that grave mark.\u003cbr\u003eBlacksnake at the Family Reunion continues Huddle's poetic inquiry into the power of early childhood and family to infuse adulthood with sadness and despair -- an inquiry conducted with profound empathy for the fragility of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807144695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.58w x 0.17d","brand":"David Huddle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41071645458613,"sku":"9780807144695","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c9bec194-49d8-47c5-9628-5050fb99482e.jpg?v=1632232122","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blacksnake-at-the-family-reunion-poems-9780807144695","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}