{"product_id":"sparks-from-a-nine-pound-hammer","title":"Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Levis Reading Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tell me a story \/ of speed and tell it to me fast for the light is \/ gaining and I will wake and with this body \/ break the barrier between what I dream \/ and what my dreaming means.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts. In a rushing, rolling style, poems sweep to the edge of falling apart, take great delight in defying that dissolution, and come upon a thing redemptive and clarifying: the fact of love. In a world that \"doesn't really care \/ whether we live or die,\" Steve Scafidi writes, \"tell it you do and why.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the harrowing fact of death, Scafidi celebrates dream and desire and the sweet erotics of springtime. Witnessing the budding of muscle trees, the nakedness of a lover, and the furious plowing of a river in the month of April amounts to a sensual equivalent of hope. And yet, the facts of history - from Troy to Rome to Montgomery, Alabama - arouse a great dread of our own cruelties. The truth of the South, the poems show, is often a brutal mix of ignorance and force that America learned from the great classical civilizations. From the unthinkable to the quietly heroic, somehow we have emerged. Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer celebrates that fact most of all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52665774604655,"sku":"9780807126943","price":121.62,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0807126942.jpg?v=1770911742","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/sparks-from-a-nine-pound-hammer","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}