{"product_id":"9780892553150","title":"The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems","description":"\"Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a wonderfully talented poet.\"—Eavan Boland\u003cbr\u003eWhether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in \"Circus Fire, 1944,\" which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, \"Suite Billy Strayhorn,\" for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, \"At the Adult Drive-In,\" which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009274659056,"sku":"9780892553150","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780892553150_p0.jpg?v=1763851413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780892553150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}