{"product_id":"the-blue-buick-new-and-selected-poems-1","title":"The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems","description":"B. H. Fairchild is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted  celebratory and melancholic.New York Times Gathering works from five of B. H. Fairchilds previous volumes stretching over thirty years  and adding twenty-six brilliant new poems  The Blue Buick showcases the career of a poet who represents \"the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted  celebratory and melancholic\" (New York Times). Fairchilds poetry covers a wide range  both geographically and intellectually  though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns  in taverns  baseball fields  one-screen movie theaters  and skies \"vast  mysterious  and bored.\" Ultimately  its cultural scopewhere Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline  with Grunewald  Gdel  and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950stranscends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy Eldridge Garcia  a machinist\/poet\/philosopher who sees in the landscape and silence of the high plains the held breath of the earth  \"as if we havent quite begun to exist. That coming into being still going on.\" From the machine work elevated to high art that is the subject of The Arrival of the Future (1985) to the despairing dreamers of Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2002) to the panoramic  voice-driven structure of Usher (2009)  Fairchilds work  \"meaty  maximalist  driven by narrative  stakes out an American mythos\" (David Ulin  Los Angeles Times). From \"The Blue Buick:\" A boy standing on a rig deck looks across the plains. A woman walks from a trailer to watch the setting sun. A man stands beside a lathe  lighting a cigar. Imagined or remembered  a girl in Normandy Sings across a sea  that something may remain.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44893594615861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393240266","price":54.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0393240266_9579bc92-ee5d-4fee-b766-7f6e71eddd47.jpg?v=1767351362","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blue-buick-new-and-selected-poems-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}