{"product_id":"2940152331448","title":"Scenes the Writer Shows {Forty-one Places a Poem can go}","description":"\u003cp\u003eScenes the Writer Shows {forty-one places a poem can go} is a collection of poems from my travels and experiences. They detail situations and moments in life—mine or someone else’s—that were either positive or negative. A few poems deal with teenage angst and issues of learning to live with how a world that sees a disability. “The Hustler” loosely mirrors my life as a disabled person in a Downtown Minneapolis. In this poem, and “Salvation for Burns,” I illustrate riding public transit and adapting to urban life:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The bus shelter knew its place;\u003cbr\u003eIts times, its sounds that gave\u003cbr\u003eExcelsior Boulevard a\u003cbr\u003eBolder face that welcomed us\u003cbr\u003eAs summer burned its heat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heat sweltered cadence of\u003cbr\u003eBlistering skin’s appeal,\u003cbr\u003eAs buses’ wheels left, fleeting past\u003cbr\u003eCarts homeless would lift on for free;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheltering cognitions,\u003cbr\u003eOf grasps their fists would never be.\u003cbr\u003eUptown merges through downtown,\u003cbr\u003eRoutes tracing perfectly,\u003cbr\u003eHennepin Avenue’s cache;”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWord-play, meter, and music are used often to create images that draw the reader into the poem:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She writes for him on Sunday after the church lights fade,\u003cbr\u003eThen ferments the burgundy to see if wine would fade;\u003cbr\u003eAnd she steals bread from the Eucharist and eats it while\u003cbr\u003eOn parade.\u003cbr\u003eWhen she writes verses for a South American band,\u003cbr\u003eA samba beat grows malignant on palms of her hands,\u003cbr\u003e“Buenos Dias” is written for tides that meet Ipanema’s sand;\u003cbr\u003eNow her writing is imprinted on the souls she’s saved.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy poems take the reader from England to Scotland and Wales. They go to the Middle East and Norway, all from the streets of Minneapolis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael P Amram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103118737648,"sku":"2940152331448","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152331448_p0.jpg?v=1764019589","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152331448","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}