{"product_id":"the-forage-house","title":"The Forage House","description":"\u003cp\u003eAttic boxes full of shards. Family stories full of secrets. A grandchild wondering what to save and what to throw away seeks to make sense of what it means to inherit anything at all. In The Forage House  the speaker unravels a rich and troubling history. Some of her ancestors were the Randolph Jeffersons  one of Virginias most prominent slaveholding families. Some were New England missionaries. Some were dirt-poor Appalachians. And one was the brilliant  controversial Thomas Jefferson. Shuttling between legend and story  history and family tale  these poems visit cluttered attics  torn wills  and marked and unmarked graves. Working alongside historians and archaeologists  Taylor unearths buttons  pipes  and the accidental rubble of a busy state building its new freeway. Based in years of research and travel  these poems form a kind of lyric journalism  collaged from tantalizing fragments. Moving between past and present  East and West  they reveal an uneasy genealogist struggling with ambiguous legacies. The poems ask how fragments exert force now. They dance between inheritance and loss  reimagining \\u201cilluminating lies.\\u201d In their hunger to assemble and remember  they also forge a new record of struggle and love: \\u201chow much I wish for will not be recorded.\\u201d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986182729781,"sku":"ByrdShop_1597092703","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781597092708_22cf54da-cf58-4f48-8ac2-4b87129c5932.jpg?v=1772663151","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-forage-house","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}