{"product_id":"9780061756078","title":"The Ghost Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this, his fifteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate continues doing what he does best. His poems are evocative, provocative, funny, subtle, eccentric, occasionally disturbing, and wildly outrageous. Tate's surrealist style strikes its own utterly new and original note in American poetry; as Charles Simic has observed, \"To write a poem out of nothng at all is Tate's genius...Just about anything can happen next in this kind of poetry and that is its attraction...He makes me think that anti-poetry is the best friend poetry ever had.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFather′s Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy daughter has lived overseas for a number\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof years now. She married into royalty, and they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewon't let her communicate with any of her family or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efriends. She lives on birdseed and a few sips\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof water. She dreams of me constantly. Her husband,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Prince, whips her when he catches her dreaming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFierce guard dogs won't let her out of their sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hired a detective, but he was killed trying to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erescue her. I have written hundreds of letters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the State Department. They have written back \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esaying that they are aware of the situation. I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enever saw her dance. I was always away at some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econvention. I never saw her sing. I was always\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworking late. I called her My Princess, to make\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eup for my shortcomings, and she never forgave me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirdseed was her middle name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011180970224,"sku":"9780061756078","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061756078_p0.jpg?v=1763622413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061756078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}