{"product_id":"a-pound-of-cure-9781930781672","title":"A Pound of Cure","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eA Pound of Cure: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eA Pound of Cure\u003c\/i\u003e have a clarity of vision, a wisdom earned in a life weighed and measured. At times narrative, at times lyrical, in this collection we read of a Luna moth remembered forty years, Civil War photos, a tenant house seen with '...wind in your face like a dog \/ from the backseat of your father's Buick.' Edward Wilson is a historian, an archivist, but foremost a poet who takes his time mining the human condition for a pound of cure that, if we are paying attention, might heal wounds we've long carried as well.\" --\u003cb\u003eRick Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFish Streets Before Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have never read poems that pick me up and move me around like Edward Wilson's do. Walk with him with words he uses like musical notes, like a palette of paint, and he'll take you from a Kentucky coal mine (where you smell the stink) to a North Coast redwood forest (walking by flashlight when the road runs out), to a West Nashville night club (so hot you feel sweat start). These are poems you can spend a lot of time thinking about or you can let them speak directly to your body, bringing you into a world of feeling that knows your heart by name.\" --\u003cb\u003eBarbara Brown Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Altar in the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eA Pound of Cure\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilson breathes language into life and wraps it around towering redwoods, frost-covered pines, angels leading Lot's wife away from Sodom and Gomorrah, the Civil War dead. These poems shimmer with distilled essence of Southern sunsets and burning stars that always follow, captured line-by-line from the opening page to the final sentence. Gorgeous.\" --\u003cb\u003eAndrew Geyer\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cider Press Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781930781672","brand":"Cider Press Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45109296300169,"sku":"9781930781672","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1ef3f619-3f91-4e55-a9ba-bbb2d8c7c6ef.jpg?v=1767073986","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-pound-of-cure-9781930781672","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}