{"product_id":"9781475984453","title":"Requiem for a Snappy Dresser: Poems of Expiation and Conceit","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his new collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eRequiem for a Snappy Dresser: Poems of Expiation and Conceit\u003c\/i\u003e, author \u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Nicholas\u003c\/strong\u003e shares his attempt to reconcile his own life in terms of family, sex, love, loneliness, illness, death, and aging. This compilation of his work offers autobiographical, adult-themed poems, many of them explicit and on the subject of being gay. He presented some of these verses during his ongoing psychotherapy sessions in a Los Angeles, California Veteran’s Administration medical center, writing them as he fought paranoia, fear, disease, depression, and enormous self-doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNicholas considers these and other issues with often brutal candor, shocking irreverence, sensitivity, defiance, and surprising humor. He writes with honesty about the danger, loneliness, and pain of self-isolation. With this collection of poems, he hopes to provide others with insight, understanding, and maybe some compassion for all people—male or female, gay or straight—as they approach and experience their own inevitable final years of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne More Poem\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne more poem to write\u003cbr\u003eAbout the old man and the little boy\u003cbr\u003eBut the poem will write and right itself\u003cbr\u003eMy hand the aging instrument joining the two\u003cbr\u003eIt isn’t time quite yet\u003cbr\u003eBut soon the two must meet\u003cbr\u003eEmbrace\u003cbr\u003eMerge\u003cbr\u003eAnd move to life’s next place\u003cbr\u003eA young boy’s resolution\u003cbr\u003eOn an old man’s wrinkled face\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141667733744,"sku":"9781475984453","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475984453_p0.jpg?v=1763607593","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475984453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}