{"product_id":"9780692612323","title":"Sunlight Rippling in the Wheat: An Expanded Version of Wheat Rippling in the Sunlight","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is an expanded version of an earlier work entitled \u003cem\u003eWheat Rippling in the Sunlight\u003c\/em\u003e published by RoseDog in 2005. In this work the Table of Contents is enhanced by grouping the poems into eight sections by year. The primary purpose of this new book is to incorporate ten poems that did not go into the original work. Included are four poems written over forty years ago and preserved by a friend who returned them to the author in 2005 after \u003cem\u003eWheat Rippling in the Sunlight\u003c\/em\u003e was published. These poems are included in Poems of the Lost Thompson along with \u003cem\u003eInner Landscapes\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e The Gift \u003c\/em\u003ewhich were written in the same period. Following is a list of the added poems and the sections they are in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePOEMS OF THE LOST THOMPSON 1969 - 1972\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Father’s Death in 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutumn Leaves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHitchhiking in Winter, 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruck Stop Ride\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVERBERATIONS 1975 - 1976\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerry Xmas \u0026amp; a Drafty New Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLOVE INTERLUDES 1988 - 1989\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCouple’s Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAPPALACHIAN POEMS 1992 - 2012\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoles Who?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoodbye, Until Then\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four most recent poems where included in the Appalachian Poems section along with For a Woman Hurt at Home which was written during the same period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to incorporating these ten new poems, a brief biography of the author has been added plus the notes written for a YouTube video which discusses the poetry. To access this video, get into YouTube and search for \u003cem\u003eWheat Rippling in the Sunlight\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThemes prominent in the poems include sexual desire and wooing of women, spirituality and personal growth, homelessness, and loneliness. Wheat, water, and light are symbolic of life and spirituality in the poems. Love for the earth is expressed in descriptions of fields and the prairie, mountains and the ocean. There are several styles of poetry in the collection including rhymed verse, prose poems, haikus, and stream-of-consciousness. Many of the poems rely on internal rhyme and alliteration or ease of word flow to establish poetic unity, rather than end rhyme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe earliest poems were written while the author was attending a small college in southern Minnesota. The poems include topics such as sexual passion, the inevitability of death, and mental disintegration that was healed partly by the writing of the poems themselves. These poems of healing include the mystic poem \u003cem\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/em\u003e written in the spring of 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author spent several years, 1969-1972, living on the streets, riding freight trains and hitch-hiking around the country. A particularly enjoyable train ride is remembered in the poem \u003cem\u003eWhitefish Train Station\u003c\/em\u003e. After this period of wandering the author moved west in 1975 and eventually quit drinking alcohol on April 29, 1985. The flowering of poetry in 1986 began during a personal growth seminar with the stream-of-consciousness \u003cem\u003eIn Flight\u003c\/em\u003e, a poem of mystical union with God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Douglas Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027455066352,"sku":"9780692612323","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692612323_p0.jpg?v=1763610783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692612323","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}