{"title":"Bruce Snider","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the poignant and affecting poetry of Bruce Snider. Exploring themes of family, identity, and the American landscape, Snider's work resonates with profound emotional depth. Browse his collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"at-home-by-the-sea-book-bruce-snider-9780892727544","title":"At Home by the Sea","description":"Acclaimed architectural photographer Brian Vanden Brink joins forces with Custom Home magazine editor Bruce Snider to take readers into 21 stunning seaside homes from Canada's Bay of Fundy to St. Barthelemy. While Snider writes about homes that range from traditional to ultra-modern, Vanden Brink's photos show that these homes are intimately linked to their seascape settings. 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Poems move between the scientific and the biblical, effortlessly sliding from the clinical landscape of a sperm bank to Mount Moriah as Abraham prepares Isaac for sacrifice. Exploring issues of sexuality, lineage, and mortality, Snider delves into subjects as varied as the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky; same-sex couple adoption; and Gregor Mendel's death in 1884. Each poem builds into a broader examination of power and fragility, domesticity and rebellion, violence and devotion: heartrending vignettes of the aches and joys of growing up and testing the limits of nature and nurture. In language both probing and sensitive, Fruit delivers its own conflicted and celebratory answers to pressing questions of life, death, love, and biology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346664034577,"sku":"CIN0299326748VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0299326748.jpg?v=1763476673"},{"product_id":"paradise-indiana-book-bruce-snider-9780807145517","title":"Paradise, Indiana","description":"A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home to die. At the center of it all, a teenage boy's suicide resonates through the lives of those closest to him. The poems in Bruce Snider's Paradise, Indiana describe a place where mundane events neighbor the most harrowing.  Shaped by the author's experiences growing up in rural Indiana, Snider investigates the landscapes traditionally claimed by male poets such as James Wright, James Dickey, and Richard Hugo, whose visions of place rarely, if ever, included the presence of gays and lesbians. Paradise, Indiana envisions a seldom recorded rural America, one where everything exists side by side: the county fair and an abandoned small town gay bar, farmers and cross-dressers, death and hope, beauty and despair.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50955261018385,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50955263508753,"sku":"CIN0807145513VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51502857224465,"sku":"NIN9780807145517","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807145513.jpg?v=1762596527"},{"product_id":"blood-harmony-book-bruce-snider-9780299355548","title":"Blood Harmony","description":"An unflinching tale of selfishness and sacrifice, guilt and resentment, hope and despair, Bruce Snider’s fourth collection tells the story of two brothers torn apart by opioid addiction. “He needed help,” writes Snider. “I imagined the chemicals in his brain like the chemicals in mine. \/\/ I imagined our DNA, mirrors facing one another—an infinite us.”     These sublime poems paint a singular portrait of rural working-class America populated by shuttered tool factories and country gay bars, hidden fishing holes and Dolly Parton drag queens. Drawing on music and myth, science and history, Snider interrogates the bonds of family, exploring themes of masculinity, devotion, sexuality, and the biology of addiction. Yet for all its competing tensions, Blood Harmony leaves us with an enduring portrait of brotherhood defined as much by tenderness as by pain.     In considering the parable of the prodigal son, Snider acutely notes, “without the older brother’s \/ flawed heart, \/\/ there is no story.” And finally, in a later poem, he reminds us that “Cain must be judged \/ because he did what’s forbidden— \/\/ he survived.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51770034880785,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51770035110161,"sku":"NGR9780299355548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52702701584657,"sku":"NIN9780299355548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52973248512273,"sku":"NLS9780299355548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53212082372881,"sku":"CIN0299355543G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780299355548.jpg?v=1762856717"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-bruce-snider.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}