{"product_id":"descent-9780807147504","title":"Descent","description":"\u003cp\u003eNavigating the dangerous currents of family and race, Kathryn Stripling Byer's sixth poetry collection confronts the legacy of southern memory, where too often \"it's safer to stay blind.\"\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with \"Morning Train,\" a response to Georgia blues musician Precious Bryant, Byer sings her way through a search for identity, recalling the hardscrabble lives of her family in the sequence \"Drought Days,\" and facing her inheritance as a white southern woman growing up amid racial division and violence. The poet encounters her own naive complicity in southern racism and challenges the narrative of her homeland, the \"Gone with the Wind\" mythology that still haunts the region.\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, Descent creates a fragile reconciliation between past and present, calling over and over again to celebrate being, as in the book's closing manifesto, \"Here. Where I am.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathryn Stripling Byer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.24w x 0.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807147504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Winner","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43211679957129,"sku":"9780807147504","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8700b979-013f-4ca9-8b48-5ae1bd468c21.jpg?v=1734428531","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/descent-9780807147504","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}