{"product_id":"9781625505101","title":"Nearly Naked","description":"In Nearly Naked, Patrick O'Neill strips away the pretense and posturing - the fear, really - that prevents people from preserving their integrity in a world that increasingly fails to value that bedrock trait: A college bureaucracy that favors a clean desk over an inquiring mind; a brotherhood threatened by feminists; people who fall short of other peoples' unrealistic expectations-O'Neill holds them all accountable in his poems, which read as short stories. There's a moral to each poem - and O'Neill is a skilled teller of entertaining tales. This book is full of favorite O'Neill characters-his vegan niece, botanist sister, spunky grandma, wife and lovers. They come alive in O'Neill's discerning description and dialog and feel as real as his iconic polka dot hat.\u003cbr\u003e--Diane Montz\u003cp\u003ePatrick O'Neill's verse with its wonderfully \"everyman\" characters brings so-called \"common folks\" to a literary immortality that demands his inclusion in the pantheon of old and new great poets.\u003cbr\u003e--Del Reitz, Ed\/Pub Newsletter Inago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Patrick O'Neill's poetry, inner monologues and outer dialogues fold into episodes-vignettes of everyday living. He sprinkles his poems with gentle treatments of the wisdom of animals, the revelations of plants. His poetry is a veritable kaleidoscope of highly interesting slices of life. His empathic style touches the reader's heart-felt spirits while his offbeat wit and subtle irony produce provocative revelations.\u003cbr\u003e--Tom Bruneau, Professor Emeritus, Radford University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Llumina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042276360432,"sku":"9781625505101","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781625505101_p0.jpg?v=1763867282","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781625505101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}