{"product_id":"9781468549201","title":"Spectrum: A Poetry Memoir","description":"Poetry is “closest to the heart.”  Through its symbols, word pictures, intuition, feelings and emotions it is a hint of history, the momentary present and a visionary tool of the future.   A poem or a painting is analogous to an iceberg—10% visible, 90% hidden meaning.   “The reader provides the narrative.” These poems, with the exception of five or six, were written after 2000.  They show my explorations into the arts, love, people I met along the way, my protestations, introspections, and new perspectives I gained after times of change, personal problems and separations from those I love.  The poems enabled me to find new strength, to harness my thoughts of years past, to live peaceably in the present and to recognize that a future of dreams and hopes can become reality.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174759088368,"sku":"9781468549201","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468549201_p0.jpg?v=1763696360","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468549201","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}