{"product_id":"2940016322599","title":"Treading Lightly: not so modern poetry in the post-modern age","description":"WARNING!\u003cbr\u003eIf you don't like any of the lines below, you won't like any of the poems inside:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The belladonna fruit is red, a warning that you'd soon be dead\u003cbr\u003eIf you so much as broke the skin and sipped the deadly juice within.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From Lucrezia's Feast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who knows where you'd be, or what the age, or what it all would mean\u003cbr\u003eWhen the wheels stop spinning and you look out from inside the time machine?\"\u003cbr\u003e-From The Time Machine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But hardly had she moved her baggage in, and proved herself of legal ancestry,\u003cbr\u003eThen she went into convulsions and she died from something disagreeable in her tea.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From British Murder Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And I worked for a week on yarns and rhymes, which I finished one afternoon\u003cbr\u003eAnd brought 'em down to the cowboy slam at the Buckaroo Saloon.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From Cowboy Slam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Then I had some supper in the big lodge hall-A steak, a salad and fries,\u003cbr\u003eAnd listened to a pair of old coots at the bar swapping backwoods lies.\" \u003cbr\u003e-From The Pinehurst Cabin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Three bullets they found in his chest, from a gun with her finger prints on the grip.\u003cbr\u003eFor the time for the crime she has no alibi, and she says that she don't give a rip.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From Hopeless Case,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Across the cover ran a black freight train with a billowing head of steam,\u003cbr\u003eBearing down on a girl, tied fast to the tracks, illumed in the headlight's beam.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From Dime Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You will dig the sands along the bank for the cogitation clam,\u003cbr\u003eAnd gather the roe of the idiom fish at the base of the Deep-Thought Dam.\"\u003cbr\u003e-From Fishing for Words.","brand":"Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071270797552,"sku":"2940016322599","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016322599_p0.jpg?v=1763633507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016322599","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}