{"product_id":"hillbilly-guilt-paperback","title":"Hillbilly Guilt - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoy Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHillbilly Guilt \u003c\/em\u003eis populated with those whose lives aren't deemed important: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe poor and working poor of Appalachia, who live what it is to be American.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book that seeks to show that we are the sum of our mistakes. Not just \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe little goofs, either; but the huge, world-shattering blunders that go to the core \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof what it is to be human. The title poem \"Hillbilly Guilt\"-the frontispiece and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforward to the book as a whole-asserts moments of resilience if not Triumph, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe chance to heal if not a deliverance from the possibility of further injury: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI waved someone down who took us to a hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI recall he broke his nose. That it bled and bled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand that he wanted me to believe what he said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehappened, had happened that way. He seemed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto want not to feel what he felt at having risked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eour lives for nothing. Oh, and I have to tell you: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Chevy-to-a-hospital that stopped had a Virgin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary on its curving, blue dashboard and that plastic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efigure said what it said about having a little faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems exist in a kind of \u003cem\u003eTwilight Zone\u003c\/em\u003e of expectation and hope and knowing that country by a whole bunch of names. As a survivor of the Great American Beating We Give Ourselves for Falling Short, the writer invites us to live, innocent and less so-as in the poem \"Lazarus, Later\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't get me wrong. I was in a hurry to flee the tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuick to step from one imperium of flesh into another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, I paused a short while to let my eyes adjust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot to be honored or genuflect but to let it all sink in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 24, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352854610169,"sku":"9780999491560","price":27.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eXulJuwxfF9780999491560.webp?v=1769815753","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hillbilly-guilt-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}