{"product_id":"9781600478796","title":"Once Upon a Time in Babylon","description":"Once Upon a Time in Babylon is a miscellaneous collection of poems written (largely) in San Francisco over a thirty-year span beginning in 1980. These poems seek to transform daily experiences \u0026amp; observations into a music of the ordinary. Topics range from the intimacy of desire \u0026amp; estrangement to manifestations of the West Coast's continuous social \u0026amp; cultural experiment, \u0026amp; from the artificial splendor of human games to the self-evident immanence of the natural world. Following Buckminster Fuller's concept of the dodecahedron as the most resilient possible form, this music is usually arranged into structures of threes \u0026amp; fours: beats to lines; lines to stanzas; sections to whole aesthetic experiences. The book, in its entirety, documents the poet's San Francisco years to date, beginning with the novelty of a constrained Midwesterner transported into a land of infinite possibility, \u0026amp; proceeding through phases of increasing familiarity with the pulse \u0026amp; rhythm of America's most imaginary country.","brand":"Wasteland Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047096762608,"sku":"9781600478796","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781600478796_p0.jpg?v=1763814141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781600478796","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}