{"product_id":"the-only-house-on-the-left-paperback","title":"The Only House on the Left - 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\u003eW. Scott Hanna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only House on the Left\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Scott Hanna strips his Appalachian home, \"by a river men once named beautiful,\" to its foundation - one of memory and longing. He knows \"something is broken\" in this place, and these tender poems of \"memory digging in\" not only seek reclamation but also wonder \"how far back is far enough?\" Hanna's \"alive, unfiltered, and beautiful\" debut collection \"all tastes so goddamned good.\" These poems take us on a full-circle journey - home. With stark imagery of the Ohio Valley and an authentic exploration of all \"the questions the living keep living,\" they encourage us to remember, to embody, the truth of this existence, our mutual \"need for someone to hold us up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eCJ Farnsworth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf You Keep Making That Shameface...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs all poets who live downstream from Pittsburgh know, they write under the shadow of James Wright. There are moments here where even a simple phrase stops the heart the way a Wright poem so often does. From the title poem, for example, we read: \"turning toward words we would never end up saying, always turning toward the empty winter of now.\" These are brave poems, unafraid to tackle fear and doubt, unafraid in their many elegiac remembrances that meticulously observe the dynamics of loss and dying with honesty and conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Harshman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Poet Laureate of West Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only House on the Left\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e casts a sensory spell, unfurling a synchrony of Upper Appalachian generational experiences shadowed by iron-hard grief and a strange joyous glow of \"being alive, unfiltered, and beautiful\" inside specific place-time. Hanna's detailed narrative poems take haunting lyrical turns, navigating the dynamic territories of home where milestones continue \"ticking by like fence posts in the rearview.\" Never will we fully separate from the front porches, wrecked kitchens, cradles, coalfields, suburbs, deathbeds, creek banks, and starscapes of our lives. Indeed, this book invites us to recognize our most immediate, vulnerable selves while also accepting that existence stretches far \"beyond our seeing \/ beyond our knowing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherry Cook Stanforth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Managing Editor, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePine Mountain Sand \u0026amp; Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47500295340281,"sku":"9781639808441","price":31.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/CSsUy9dr4s9781639808441.webp?v=1773260027","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-only-house-on-the-left-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}