{"product_id":"all-the-live-long-day-paperback","title":"All the Live-Long Day - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. V. Brummels\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJV Brummels's newest collection, \u003ci\u003eAll the Live-Long Day, \u003c\/i\u003econtinues the legacy of a strong-voiced, strong-armed poetry. As the title suggests in a mocking, self-effacement, these are the poems of a man who has been working, perhaps not on the railroad, but in the classroom, in the fields, with his horses and his cattle. Brummels's poetry is simultaneously poised on humor and drop-dead seriousness, where \"an education's learning \/ how much to let slip \/ and when to let go.\" The \"punchline\" for a long working life is \"I've made a life flirting with regret \/ For all my bitching I'm the man \/ I want to be.\" Who is that, then? The man who admits that he's a smart ass, a \"whiskerless schoolmarm \/ trying to be \/ a thirty-foot hard-twist snake \/ of an arena rope, \" \"a black cat in a back alley \/ behind a bar\" before he tends to the business of branding. And yet, for all that hard word and all that hard self-appraisal, the persona is able to \"think \u003ci\u003emachine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ehorsepower \/ \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ehorse \/ \u003c\/i\u003eI smell \u003ci\u003ecow \u003c\/i\u003eon the breeze.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. V. BRUMMELS' work has been recognized with a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elkhorn Prize and the Mildred Bennett Award for contributions to the state's literature from the Nebraska Center for the Book. His \u003ci\u003eBook of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the 2008 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, and his \u003ci\u003eCheyenne Line and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as one of 150 significant Nebraska books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709955936319,"sku":"9781622889105","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d16563dea9fa85a5f3989733cffaacb9.webp?v=1765053297","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/all-the-live-long-day-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}