{"product_id":"9781680030273","title":"A Popular Play: New and Selected Poems","description":"Poems from sonnets to free verse focus on pleasures and problems in ranch life and in west Texas, which include variations differing for generations returning to the ranch, and those family members who leave the ranch for city life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e CORMORANTS’ JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e Snowbirds come diving down, sliding in\u003cbr\u003e carelessly splatting,\u003cbr\u003e pecking on windows, doors,\u003cbr\u003e building nests, dropping threads,\u003cbr\u003e shards of old nests hanging on their beaks,\u003cbr\u003e claws. Their fluttering white feathers\u003cbr\u003e blocking the sun’s puny attempts to break through,\u003cbr\u003e making the streets slick with their droppings\u003cbr\u003e as their baggage slides by,\u003cbr\u003e bumping into place side by side by side.\u003cbr\u003e Odysseus would tramp off to far west Texas,\u003cbr\u003e hankering for firm enchiladas, crusty tacos,\u003cbr\u003e brown eyes, and thin clear skies.","brand":"Texas Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183785689328,"sku":"9781680030273","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680030273_p0.jpg?v=1763687708","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680030273","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}