{"product_id":"my-surly-heart-poems-9780807170724","title":"My Surly Heart: Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMy Surly Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, the prolific poet and novelist David Huddle reflects on turning seventy-six years of age and records his aghast reactions to changes brought about by the current president of the United States. Huddle avoids the pitfalls of speechifying, pseudo-philosophizing, or indulging in unmitigated complaint. Instead, he embraces the potential of poetry to use intelligence, wit, language, knowledge, and sense of form to move toward useful revelations. Throughout this idiosyncratic collection of verse, Huddle deploys poem making as a method for psychologically and spiritually navigating from his past to his present life and on into whatever his future may hold. These poems traverse childhood memories, birding adventures, musical reveries, the role of art, and many points in between. \u003ci\u003eMy Surly Heart \u003c\/i\u003eshows a celebrated poet confronting the challenges of age and country with wry humor and unsparing honesty.--Fleda Brown, former poet laureate of Delaware and author of \u003ci\u003eBreathing In Breathing Out\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2001 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry\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 10\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807170724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.18d","brand":"David Huddle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644087988380,"sku":"9780807170724","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d2e0a103-1c72-42a5-87b7-286f6660d927.jpg?v=1603857886","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-surly-heart-poems-9780807170724","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}