{"product_id":"blacksnake-at-the-family-reunion","title":"Blacksnake at the Family Reunion","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In \"Boy Story,\" a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem \"Aloft\" recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older sister's tombstone-\"born \u0026amp; died . . . then \/ a single date \/ in November\"-the speaker in one poem struggles to understand a tragic loss: \"The ampersand \/ tells the whole truth \/ and nothing but, \/ so help me God, \/ whose divine shrug \/ is expressed so \/ eloquently \/ by that grave mark.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlacksnake at the Family Reunion continues Huddle's poetic inquiry into the power of early childhood and family to infuse adulthood with sadness and despair-an inquiry conducted with profound empathy for the fragility of humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52649312944495,"sku":"9780807144695","price":127.38,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/blacksnake-at-the-family-reunion","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}