{"product_id":"9781479735136","title":"A Rollicking Old-Age Song: New Poems","description":"This collection, written since Two Wives Ago: Selected Poems, includes poems on Isaac and strong-willed Abraham, King Lear and his troublesome daughters, the mysteries of choir practice, the historical prominence of male decapitation, a boy shot by the cops, searching the lake for a missing boy, a hippo in the bed (with the poet’s wife?), old age and decay, death-timely, too soon, too late, sweet love in youth and in old age, lilac blossoms in an outhouse, a gardener’s hopes and joys and failures, elephant dung, a skunk, a quite day at the frog pond, the history and esthetics of tattooing, a Japanese woodblock print moon, a Robert Frost tool, an E.M. Forster story, and a message which may have gone astray.  Cover engraving by J.G. Posada","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125591064816,"sku":"9781479735136","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479735136_p0.jpg?v=1763617415","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479735136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}