{"product_id":"2940148944546","title":"Blowing Out The Candles: Book Three, Love and Puds","description":"\"Love and Puds\" is the third book in Jim Gee's Trilogy, \"Blowing Out The Candles\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have spent my career as an academic,” Jim Gee tells us. “When I was young, to me being an academic meant being a secular priest. But my church is a fallen church. We no longer honor little things like truth, but only big things like money.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is enough about Gee’s poems to keep a conversation going in a class in the Humanities or Sciences for an entire semester, and the issues raised about the politics and ethics of representation, the demands of official ideology, and the inexplicable human capacity for good and evil, are more than enough to keep us all conscious of the increasing dehumanization of the age we live in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf all this sounds too heavy, it is important to add – at the risk of Gee’s wrath – that his poems will also make you laugh. They are paradoxical as well as quixotic, filled with the absurdities of life that make good stories to share with friends over coffee or dinner. For sometimes in our lives when our unconscious and conscious meet, the cry out loud comes in the form of a laugh.","brand":"Garn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111683244272,"sku":"2940148944546","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148944546_p0.jpg?v=1763710338","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148944546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}