{"product_id":"ironhood-poems-paperback","title":"Ironhood: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaymond Luczak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book sees all. Not everything, but all. There's a difference.\" --John Lee Clark, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Communicate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIronhood\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed poet Raymond Luczak recalls the neighbors and shopkeepers he once knew while growing up in Ironwood, Michigan during the 1970s and 1980s. They included a scruffy man who smoked cheap cigars while tending to his fragrant backyard garden, a cat-eyed woman who stood watch over a sea of typewriters, a bald jeweler whose dexterous fingers repaired a watch's minuscule innards, and tired cashiers in red smocks who dreamed at the western edge of town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are an antidote to the language of shallow tourist marketing and cartoonish outlander stereotypes that so often seem to define Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a place much mythologized, but seldom seen and understood with any clarity of vision.\" --M. Bartley Seigel, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Bone-Cracking Cold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We meet the shops, landscape, and people of a working-class Iron Range town barely touched by waves of the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s. What emerges is an incisive exploration of growing up in a small town, where one can be suffocatingly known and intimately estranged at the same time.\" --Emily Van Kley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cold and the Rust\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRAYMOND LUCZAK\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author and editor of 38 books, including \u003cem\u003eAnimals Out-There W-i-l-d\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eonce upon a twin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCompassion, Michigan\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731393605939,"sku":"9798896560128","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GFsQBS57m89798896560128.webp?v=1763855825","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/ironhood-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}