{"product_id":"9780984240562","title":"Undertow Overtures","description":"Twenty years of (mostly previously published) collected poetry.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award winning author, actor, poet, Larry Crist, comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m an only child. My parents were as well\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth lost their mothers early, their fathers too\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was raised on a goat farm in the California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewine country. I learned to read before kindergarten \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat first year of school was okay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m sorry i didn’t go out for football in high school\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI did a lot of drugs and spent a year in jail instead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI earned an MFA in theatre from Temple U.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas well as a useless BA at HSU, Humboldt County, California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI studied English \u0026amp; History, attended an acting academy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein my early 20s, and never graduated high school\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t have a tv. I have a cell phone, but can barely use it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy particular form of ADD prevents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eme from reading directions. Whenever\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ei read something, telling me how to do something\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ei invariably focus on how bad the writing is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love baseball. I ache for it and the kind of weather\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit accompanies. I love tigers and cats and crows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI find cooking therapeutic and have always had a fear of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estarving to death. I prefer pie to cake but have no taste\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor either unless i smoke weed. I love to walk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eespecially around Green Lake when it is sunny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would love to do this while walking a tiger. I would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprobably have a beer, because no one is going to bother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou about drinking when you’re out walking a tiger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT A B L E O F C O N T E N T S\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 ~ Early atrocities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 ~ Man about town\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 ~ Nature \u0026amp; natural crimes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 ~ Literary quite contrary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ATOM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50076026077424,"sku":"9780984240562","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984240562_p0.jpg?v=1784737574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984240562","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}