{"product_id":"9781543740837","title":"Soliloquy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoliloquy is a lyric autobiography that details the misadventures, life lessons, and glory moments of an American poet. This tale is a mix of personal history and cultural iconography, slipping from Soupy Sales to Edgar Allen Poe, from Mary Poppins to UFOs, and from comic book superheroes to underground poetry readings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBattling a depression and anxiety endemic in our time, author Kurt Cline is propelled down a corridor of memory and imagination, having met some of the greatest poets of modern day. He hung out with the Sun Ra Arkestra for an entire evening in a snowed-in Howard Johnson hotel. He shook hands with Patti Smith at the stroke of New Year’s in the Bowery Ballroom of New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the story of a life lived through writing. In a poetic prose work reminiscent of Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, or Dylan Thomas, Cline intertwines strands of vision, emotion, and culture to form a personality-structure that is ultimately able to transcend the limitations of its past and discover a new, improved destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Partridge Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063715152112,"sku":"9781543740837","price":27.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781543740837_p0.jpg?v=1763751522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781543740837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}