{"product_id":"2940158054365","title":"Poems from a Lonely Country: Messages from the Bush years.","description":"This is a collection that attempts to answer the age old question, \"what happens when you take Transcendentalism, Modernist thoughts and a copy of 'A Beats Reader Primer' with you on an outing to the mall?\"\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book of poems that combines evocative and grandiose imagery, self deprecating humor and sardonic self awareness (often in the same poem). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the appropriately named 22 part irony laden pop culture ramble \"Sprawl\" to one Stanza poems such as \"Well Lit Ports\" this collection runs the gamut. \u003cbr\u003eIf you had to read just two stanzas to get a feel for the flavor of poems you will find in this collection you could not do better than the first two stanzas of \"Scars\" The final poem of the book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have pulled myself,\u003cbr\u003eThrough the hardest times,\u003cbr\u003eOn nothing but Resolve. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDragging my soul behind me,\u003cbr\u003eBleeding platitudes,\u003cbr\u003eAnd assurances\u003cbr\u003eThat I'm Ok.\"","brand":"Jason Lee Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175087227120,"sku":"2940158054365","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158054365_p0.jpg?v=1764108971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158054365","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}