{"product_id":"farewell-to-the-starlight-in-whiskey","title":"Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFarewell to the Starlight in Whiskey \u003c\/em\u003eBarton Sutter explores the wilderness along the Canadian border, sings about love in midlife, meditates on the roots of war, attacks political leaders, recounts the peculiar heroics of an epileptic Vietnam vet, writes a \"personal\" ad in the voice of a chickadee, and talks to a dead jackpine. A deft practitioner of meter and rhyme, Sutter is a fireside storyteller who makes the language thump and sing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSweet Jesus \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI found you, my lush, curvaceous savior,\u003cbr\u003eNailed to the old rugged cross of your life\u003cbr\u003eAs if cursed, caught, condemned to stay there.\u003cbr\u003eSweet Jesus with breasts and black hair,\u003cbr\u003eI took you down, dressed your wounds,\u003cbr\u003eWoke you from you midlife swoon,\u003cbr\u003eAnd made you my unlawful wife. \u003cbr\u003eYou drank the gall of my despair \u003cbr\u003eBut swore there was another way.\u003cbr\u003eOur bodies would be the wine and bread \u003cbr\u003eOn which we fed. \u003cbr\u003eWe came alive there, \u003cbr\u003eNourished by grief, by tears and saliva. \u003cbr\u003eAnd, lo, the stone of sorrow was rolled away; \u003cbr\u003eTogether, we rose from the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePrice: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418413317,"sku":"1-929918-57-7","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FAREWELL_TO_THE_STARLIGHT.jpg?v=1527683262","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/farewell-to-the-starlight-in-whiskey","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}