{"product_id":"amasa-speaker-factory-poems-paperback","title":"Amasa Speaker Factory: Poems - 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\u003eChad Faries\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmasa Speaker Factory \u003c\/em\u003ewanders Michigan's Upper Peninsula with a mining helmet, a pickaxe, and a dizzying soundtrack.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChad Faries sifts through abandoned mines, family history, and the quiet damage of loving Iron County, Michigan--a place that keeps trying to break him. His poetry mines the U.P.'s economic decline, stubborn resilience, and awkward small-town rituals, balancing bleak humor with bruised affection. Both a personal autopsy and a regional love letter, Faries proves that identity, like iron, is forged under pressure and usually leaves a mess behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAmasa Speak Factory \u003c\/em\u003eis a brilliant Book, a literature of roller rinks and huffy bikes and homegrown weed. Chad Faries explores a far-northern Midwest where wilderness has been decades reclaiming mine ruins, radio waves reach through decades as your sweet, tired town 'calls you home with a radio dial, ' through speakers from those same years with voices that will grow with long grass between railroad ties.\" -- Jonathan Johnson, author of \u003cem\u003ePine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant and beguiling; this book is magnetic as the Yooper iron that binds it. As a U.P. rock opera, \u003cem\u003eAmasa Speaker Factory\u003c\/em\u003e is a tantalizing mindmeld memory--divine, devilish, hardscrabble, tumultuous reckoned life--pierced with the cold flames of youthful gains shredding loss. The heart skips less beats when we up and lose ourselves.\" -- Alison Adelle Hdge Coke, author of \u003cem\u003eLook at This Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAD FARIES\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Border Will Be Soon\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e and the memoir \u003cem\u003eDrive Me Out of My Mind\u003c\/em\u003e. He divides his time between Iron River, Michigan and Thunderbolt, Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978301341997,"sku":"9798896560845","price":22.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/ZF1vjWBxGi9798896560845.webp?v=1775801529","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/amasa-speaker-factory-poems-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}