{"product_id":"black-sabbatical-poems-9781932511734","title":"Black Sabbatical: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of the swamp in back of Billy-Joes's pickup truck.\"--\u003ci\u003eDazed \u0026amp; Confused Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sustaining, inspiring, even rescuing.\"--Will Oldham, musician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare.\"--Harmony Korine, filmmaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brett Eugene Ralph can look at a woman dancing alone, 'eyes closed, lips parted, held aloft \/ in one hand half a mango, \/ a gigantic butcher knife \/ clutched in the other, ' and know immediately that she's praying.\"--Andrew Hudgins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrett Eugene Ralph\u003c\/b\u003e lives in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4448252\"\u003eBrett Eugene Ralph\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932511733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRalph's work has appeared in Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, The American Poetry Review, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Currently, he teaches at Hopkinsville Community in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44562423415021,"sku":"9781932511734","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_4b262a91-7cf1-4176-8727-c28bf9590e9d.jpg?v=1701830948","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/black-sabbatical-poems-9781932511734","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}