{"product_id":"keep-and-give-away-poems-paperback","title":"Keep and Give Away: Poems - 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\u003eSusan Meyers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss, relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world, where birds are \"yeses quickening the air\" and the sky can \"lap you up, and up.\" In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection, contraries, and-most of all-love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Meyers\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLessons in Leaving, \u003c\/i\u003e a chapbook selected by Brendan Galvin for the 1998 Persephone Press Book Award. Her poems have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, Crazyhorse, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Tar River Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eand have been featured online at \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily.\u003c\/i\u003e A longtime writing instructor, she holds an M.F.A. from Queens University of Charlotte. Meyers grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in Givhans, South Carolina, near Summerville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.48 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (2007)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353475236089,"sku":"9781570036705","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/DvGRL5G7mH9781570036705.webp?v=1769824937","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/keep-and-give-away-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}