{"product_id":"big-back-yard","title":"Big Back Yard","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Teig's \u003cem\u003eBig Back Yard\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, chosen by award-winning poet and fiction writer Stephen Dobyns. Teig's poems display his ability to create surprising metaphors and images. These are integrated seamlessly into startlingly original poems, which, though often difficult, aren't inaccessible. \"With Teig I could never calculate the poem's direction,\" Dobyns writes in his Foreword. \"Yet where the poem wound up . . . felt exactly right, while the ride itself, the reading experience, gave great pleasure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSince We've Hardly Met, All This Waving Is A Poor Goodbye\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the neighbor girl emerged\u003cbr\u003ecalling, Blackberry, Blackberry, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eit was late enough the traffic lights\u003cbr\u003ewere just repeating themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomeone left the crickets on. \u003cbr\u003eThe field powdered in cobweb. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI thought she was growing beautiful out there \u003cbr\u003eand beyond hope. Already we are dancing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein the Versailles Ballroom at the Holiday Inn.\u003cbr\u003eI promise if we don't need food,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewe don't have to get dressed all day. \u003cbr\u003eI can make a small boat with my hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418202885,"sku":"9781929918379","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BIG_BACK_YARD.jpg?v=1527683184","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/big-back-yard","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}