{"product_id":"2940157612115","title":"Riding By: Collected Poems","description":"This New York poet has been compared, in a Kirkus review, to Walt Whitman, Hart\u003cbr\u003eCrane and John Asbury. His poems graphically capture images, examine relationships,\u003cbr\u003ewrestle with mortality, explore foreign places, express love, toy with romance and\u003cbr\u003eprotest Man's inhumanity. The killing of Trayvon Martin in the name of \"stand your\u003cbr\u003eground\", being lost in Paris, responding to a line-cutter at a Starbucks, describing a\u003cbr\u003ehome run as Rilke might have, all of these moments and many more, are dealt with\u003cbr\u003evividly with melancholy, irony or a touch of humor. The throb and hum of the city beat\u003cbr\u003epersistently beneath these poems as does the clacking of the long-gone Third Avenue\u003cbr\u003eEl which once traveled above the streets of the poet's youth. There is beauty here and\u003cbr\u003egrit as the city takes away even as it gives.","brand":"Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103913394416,"sku":"2940157612115","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157612115_p0.jpg?v=1764099289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157612115","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}