{"product_id":"lyrics-for-a-low-noon-paperback","title":"Lyrics for a Low Noon - 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\u003eJames Ralston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Ralston, in his debut collection, delivers with an edgy honesty and complex humor the difficulties of loving and being loved. His poems explore sex and separation, the highs of intimacy with someone that devolve into something lesser, and yet he says, 'Don't think of us as failed or sad.\/As love drops down into its grave, \/finally deep enough, \/imagine us as brave at last.' There's a fierce precision like that evident throughout, a poetry that dares and distills, and is exquisitely heard, his ears providing a music that authenticates as it makes us wince with the pleasure of recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames (Jim) Ralston lives on three and a half acres between Rocky Gap Creek and Evitts Creek outside of Cumberland, Maryland, a post-industrial town still trying to find its way forward. This land and this Appalachian town are the settings for most of the \u003cem\u003eLyrics for a Low Noon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalston teaches English and Theatre at Blue Ridge Technical and Community College, Martinsburg, West Virginia. He has also taught at Shepherd University (Shepherdstown, WV), Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD), and Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), with a few other short stops along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Choice of Emptiness\u003c\/em\u003e, a series of essays that also works as a novel; \u003cem\u003eThe Appalachian Grammar Shop\u003c\/em\u003e; and, over a span of 35 years, numerous essays and poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Sun: A Magazine of Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e. As well, his work has appeared in various other journals and newspapers, including the \u003cem\u003eUtne Reader \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e. For fifteen years, between 1990 and 2005, he was a regular columnist for the \u003cem\u003eCharleston Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, West Virginia's state paper. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has written four plays, acted in some of them, directed some of them, most recently \"35 Folds to the Moon\" at the New Embassy Theatre in Cumberland and the Apollo Theatre in Martinsburg. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52727517086003,"sku":"9781421838052","price":29.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Y1AvM1VGN3VlVFFqOWJkTktjbHoxZz09.webp?v=1763758796","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lyrics-for-a-low-noon-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}