{"product_id":"9781462819973","title":"Salt Wind","description":"A coming-of-age novella of the sea, Salt Wind depicts its young protagonist in his relationships, predicaments and actions in a maturation process over time.  The setting of the novella is mainly the mid-twentieth century American Merchant Marine on both coasts with other stories extending out.  The tale is told with a mixture of poetry, prose fragments and short fiction to create an artistic presentation that works to both evoke and provoke the reader's involvement in its dramatic tension and complexity.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eEarly sea-time is conjoined with Army boat-time in Korea, love story in Japan, further voyages, studies and struggles in philosophy, history, and religion, monastic time, marriage, divorce, new start, and final reflections.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe smell of sea mist and blood,  \u003cbr\u003eOf rusted chain and creosote,  \u003cbr\u003eCaught me up then in the salthunger  \u003cbr\u003eThat leads out under the white wind  \u003cbr\u003eWhere gulls twist over the heaving ocean--  \u003cbr\u003eRaging against the taught  tines   \u003cbr\u003eOf rain that lean like ice  \u003cbr\u003eAgainst the sea's iron face.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWhite sea claws trailing red smoke  \u003cbr\u003eRose furying in  \u003cbr\u003eTo the belly of the night  \u003cbr\u003eWhile the he-hawing wind  \u003cbr\u003eKeened in my crouching ear  \u003cbr\u003eThe steel0stiff dirge and sick song  \u003cbr\u003e\"Of warm flowers on a green beach\"  \u003cbr\u003eWhere love ripens like rotting mangoes  \u003cbr\u003eIn the coal shafts of light  \u003cbr\u003eThat hang hard under the blue  \u003cbr\u003eBlack sun of desire.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129488490736,"sku":"9781462819973","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462819973_p0.jpg?v=1763678096","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462819973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}