{"product_id":"9781466987654","title":"Scenes the Writer Shows: {Forty-one places a poem can go}","description":"Scenes the Writer Shows {forty-one places a poem can go} is a collection of poems from travels and experiences.  They describe situations and moments in life (mine or someone else’s) that were either positive or negative.  A few poems deal with teenage angst and issues of personal experience either in my own or someone else’s life.  “The Hustler,” for example, loosely mirrors my life and experience as a disabled person. It is a montage of my years living in Downtown Minneapolis, riding public transit and adapting to urban life.  Word-play, meter and music used often to create images that will draw the reader into the poem.  For example, in “Waxing on Flames,” I tried to create the image of a bonfire by a river with young scouts growing up as flames nurture them along:  “We were young and at the mercy of our means and we flung ourselves Down upon the flames for what we knew felt right; I bridled from Those heated pains that boiled and tested me; and knelt down to Pray upon the iron grate while Moonlight splintered trees to shake Ripe, fierce winds I’d learned to hate;”  My poems travel to England, to Scotland and Wales.  They go to the Mid-east and to Norway. They go from my home in Minneapolis to New York and Tennessee.","brand":"Trafford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135476973808,"sku":"9781466987654","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466987654_p0.jpg?v=1763689245","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466987654","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}