{"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Since her childhood, Sharon Doubiago has sought to understand America in its dual relation as a haven of hope and a site of genocide. Hard Country is an epic poem in which the author, \"an American Isis,\" travels over the land \"in search of the lover strewn in pieces across it.\" Doubiago writes a major response to the male epic consciousness of 20th century American modernist poetry.\"--BOOK JACKET."}