{"product_id":"ironhood-poems-9798896560128","title":"Ironhood: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book sees all. Not everything, but all. There's a difference.\" --John Lee Clark, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Communicate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIronhood\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed poet Raymond Luczak recalls the neighbors and shopkeepers he once knew while growing up in Ironwood, Michigan during the 1970s and 1980s. They included a scruffy man who smoked cheap cigars while tending to his fragrant backyard garden, a cat-eyed woman who stood watch over a sea of typewriters, a bald jeweler whose dexterous fingers repaired a watch's minuscule innards, and tired cashiers in red smocks who dreamed at the western edge of town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are an antidote to the language of shallow tourist marketing and cartoonish outlander stereotypes that so often seem to define Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a place much mythologized, but seldom seen and understood with any clarity of vision.\" --M. Bartley Seigel, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Bone-Cracking Cold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We meet the shops, landscape, and people of a working-class Iron Range town barely touched by waves of the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s. What emerges is an incisive exploration of growing up in a small town, where one can be suffocatingly known and intimately estranged at the same time.\" --Emily Van Kley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cold and the Rust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRAYMOND LUCZAK\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author and editor of 38 books, including \u003cem\u003eAnimals Out-There W-i-l-d\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eonce upon a twin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCompassion, Michigan\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798896560128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Raymond Luczak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51948798804149,"sku":"9798896560128","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_955e0fef-c9a5-44cd-9fb2-2cdf6d0f706a.jpg?v=1762272991","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ironhood-poems-9798896560128","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}