{"product_id":"9780615809434","title":"Romancing Gravity: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cb\u003eROMANCING GRAVITY\u003c\/b\u003e navigate through worlds (and words) nestled in nostalgia, rooted in the uncanny, and prime with pain. Striking language and rich images frame gangbangers, classrooms, and family, while trying to carry the burdens that come with being alive. These are poems of baseball and breathing, of heaven and healing. The speakers of the poems wander from one world and into the next, looking down to find their footing, and looking up for proof that they exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eIn ROMANCING GRAVITY\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Romo has written a memoir in poetry. It is the poetry of growing up in Southern California, of childhood games and fear, of adolescent dreams and braggadocio, and a young man's coming into his own as a man and a poet. There are echoes of popular culture and the poems dance to the beat of an urban pulse. There are hallucinatory prose poems and sometimes the speaker sounds like an Old Testament prophet disguised as a homeless man, calling down curses on our decadent world. Lost children wave to us from the floor of the ocean. Do they wave in greeting or are they taking their leave? Either way, the reader waves back, the reader wants to dance or say 'Yes!' to these marvelous poems.\" \u003cb\u003eRichard Garcia,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Daniel Romo's \u003cb\u003eROMANCING GRAVITY\u003c\/b\u003e is a terrific collection-at once edgy, comical, and big-hearted. I was immediately drawn to his streetwise grit, his luminous vision of urban America. These are poems that swagger, that 'boom boom sound' and leave your ears ringing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Hernandez,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eHoodwinked\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Daniel Romo finds surprising lyricism in school classrooms, TV shows, and yard sales in his southern California neighborhoods. Celebratory, irreverent, and deeply personal, the poems in \u003cb\u003eROMANCING GRAVITY\u003c\/b\u003e capture the quotidian in stunning ways and reveal what keeps us earthbound.\" \u003cb\u003eMolly Bendall,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003e Under the Quick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silver Birch Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49795544580336,"sku":"9780615809434","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615809434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}