{"product_id":"barley-child-paperback","title":"Barley Child - 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\u003eGreg Rappleye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/i\u003e, Greg Rappleye's fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives-recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in which the human figures are often unnamed. The sum of these affidavits, arrayed across the lyric and narrative lines of these poems, is an electrifying human choir-male and female, child and adult, Irish and American-their voices rising out of shame, poverty, absurdity, violence, a strained Catholic faith, and a virulent legacy of madness and alcoholism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Free of nostalgia and cant, with a sharp Irish wit that often braves nearly monstrous subject matter, and reported with eyes that seldom mist over, \u003ci\u003eBarley Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a volume that once again confirms Greg Rappleye as a poet of witness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg Rappleye is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Path Between Houses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFigured Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a former Bread Loaf Fellow in Poetry and the winner of the 2000 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e North American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Arts \u0026amp; Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Shenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He teaches in the English department at Hope College in Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730638893363,"sku":"9781682262696","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1Y1L0GUU9U9781682262696.webp?v=1763837832","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/barley-child-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}