{"product_id":"2940156686131","title":"The Hoosier Zebra And Other \"Poims\"","description":"Ronald Aivars Ukstins was born in 1950, one year after his parents emigrated from Latvia. At first, he only knew how to speak Latvian, and as a European waif had many troubles with English grammar and American idealism (which sometimes worked). While attending elementary school in the Garden State, he was given English lessons and compassionate understanding by an old principal, Maude M. Wilkins of Maple Shade School No. 3.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a reasonably intelligent childhood and a happy adolescence, he started in on the rat maze of higher education on the arse of the sixties. He began with a biological summer session at Rutgers University. Turning next to Upland, Indiana, where four years later (1972), Taylor University greeted the fledgling cobbler of words with a liberal AB. He then clattered twenty miles as old cars sound to the infamous Ball U of the T-shirt set. Here in the hamburger mecca of the Midwest, he began to take poetry seriously. After four years of on and off study and riotous living. Ball State University awarded him with an MA in journalism.","brand":"Page Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083444830448,"sku":"2940156686131","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156686131_p0.jpg?v=1764090299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156686131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}