{"product_id":"creekwater-mansions-ian-hall-paperback","title":"Creekwater Mansions -- Ian Hall, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis debut collection of poems by Ian Hall illuminates daily life for a family and community in eastern Kentucky, all the while singing with verbal delights.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreekwater Mansions\u003c\/em\u003e documents the intimacy of duress. A son puffs cigarette smoke down his grandad's throat because the old man is too feeble to draw breath; retired draft horses learn to dance; the land manager's hired muscle flaunts an axe-handle; a grieving family uses a coffin as a card table; schoolboys siphon gin out of shag carpet just to catch a high. These are the variations of affection and kinship, so informed by and inextricable from the macabre tedium that abides in the back pews, dialysis clinics, and County-Line Liquors of daily life in Eastern Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile these poems are frequently ordered around grisly attitudes and occurrences, moods of indolent provincialism, and the evermore-contagious disease of despair, these are at their core love poems. Hall writes, \"Those are my people. I want nothing more than to esteem them and to show outsiders that even gruesomely human moments stripped of any decoration still have the heft and horsepower to be transcendent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ian Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eastover Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9\" H x 6\" L x 0.33\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781958094662\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66722549858608,"sku":"9781958094662","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781958094662.jpg?v=1777912034","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/creekwater-mansions-ian-hall-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}