{"product_id":"and-when-there-was-no-crawdad-we-ate-sand-paperback","title":"And When There Was No Crawdad We Ate Sand - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Ryberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAbraham Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Dorsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Ryberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of twenty-two collections \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elove letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresidence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eP\/o\/e\/t\/i\/c\/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeditor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappeared in \u003cem\u003eAs it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine, I-70 Review, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMain Street Rag, The Arkansas Review\u003c\/em\u003e and various \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother journals and anthologies. He lives somewhere in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, with a rooster \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enamed Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbraham Smith \u003c\/strong\u003ewas raised around Ladysmith, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wisconsin, and lives along the Wasatch Front, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His most recent poetry collection is \u003cem\u003eOne Warm Morning \u003c\/em\u003e(Stubborn Mule Press, 2025). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Dorsey\u003c\/strong\u003e is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding \u003cem\u003eWhich Way to the River: Selected Poems: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e2016-2020 \u003c\/em\u003e(OAC Books, 2020), \u003cem\u003eSundown at the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedneck Carnival, \u003c\/em\u003e (Spartan Press, 2022), \u003cem\u003ePocatello \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWildflower, \u003c\/em\u003e (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023) and \u003cem\u003eDead \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographs, \u003c\/em\u003e (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024). He may be \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereached at archerevans@yahoo.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from the flatlands of central Illinois, \u003cstrong\u003eJustin \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHamm\u003c\/strong\u003e now lives near Twain territory in Missouri. He \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis the author of five full-length collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eO \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath, Drinking Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007-2021, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Inheritance, American Ephemeral, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLessons in Ruin;\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esix poetry chapbooks; and a book of photographs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eentitled \u003cem\u003eMidwestern\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the creator of Poet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaseball Cards and the founding editor of the \u003cem\u003emuseum \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eof americana. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261371363549,"sku":"9798899750014","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/LPzehbQVWQ9798899750014.webp?v=1785075407","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/and-when-there-was-no-crawdad-we-ate-sand-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}