{"product_id":"flatlands","title":"Flatlands","description":"Flatlands, Ruth's first full-length poetry collection, explores how her perspective has been indelibly shaped by her state of birth, Nebraska. \"Some writers approach the Nebraska plains as a big, empty other into which they may imagine. I understand the appeal of that mythology. But in Ruth Williams gorgeous new collection, Flatlands, the landscape is as alive as the plains truly are, and serves as both a generating place and quixotic companion to Williams's subtle, precise speaker. Throughout the poems, Williams images are beautifully wrought and full of surprises: a salmon being filleted opens like \" a girl's coral dress come undone and the \" night heat\" of spent fireworks sleeps in the hands of children who are \" ready to knock.\" I love this book-it's musical syncopation, the tight, clean transparency of the poems' lines. I think Willa Cather, the collection's genius loci, would admire Williams's work, recognizing its fundamental truthfulness. Which is about the highest compliment I have to give.\" -Erin Belieu, Author of Slant Six, Co-founder, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts","brand":"Ruth Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44857628491818,"sku":"9781625579898","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/flatlands-1136684.jpg?v=1789614616","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/flatlands","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}