{"product_id":"9780615968582","title":"Child's Play","description":"Preface\u003cp\u003e\"At the age of six, I was reciting Longfellow's \"The Skeleton in Armor,\" from memory. Shortly would follow Wordsworth, then Tennyson, then Byron. My maternal grandfather, an Olympic gymnast, a sheriff, a self-educated lawyer, an elected judge and a commemorated race car mechanic for Louis Chevrolet in the early days of the Indianapolis 500, was also a lover (of poetry) and the books he gave me, yellowing tomes with his own favorite lines lightly underlined, were to stir in me a love of antique verse and sow the seeds of my juvenilia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt. Petersburg, Florida\u003cbr\u003eJune, 1989\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terracom Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027021676784,"sku":"9780615968582","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615968582_p0.jpg?v=1763601927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615968582","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}