{"product_id":"9780819572950","title":"Sam's Book","description":"When Sam Ray was killed at nineteen in an accident, his father began writing poetry dedicated to his memory. Sam’s Book is a collection of these elegies and other poems written during Sam’s lifetime. “How should I mourn?” David Ray asks. By recalling poignant events from the past he transcends his grief. He remembers Sam’s first bath, a “holy\/Rite”; tying the shoelaces of the “little man”; traveling to Greece, where Sam is “the first…\/to see the holy moon.” With painful wit and regret he summons up the image of his son’s blue Toyota, fastidiously transformed by Sam and his girlfriend into a “love nest.” Ray muses on what he taught Sam and what Sam taught him. Originally published in 1987, Sam’s Book won the 1988 Maurice English Poetry Award.","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118846001392,"sku":"9780819572950","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780819572950_p0.jpg?v=1763747466","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780819572950","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}