{"product_id":"9781937797041","title":"Ice Cream Poems: reflections on life with ice cream","description":"\u003cp\u003eIce cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream? Hundreds of poets not only\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esaid a resounding “yes,” but wrote about it. And from those hundreds, I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaccepted the 125 poems you will find here from 27 different states plus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustralia, France, Iraq, Spain, and Tunisia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems are as various as the flavors of ice cream: long poems, short\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems, and in addition to traditional free-verse narratives and lyrics:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperimental poems, poems in forms such as sestinas, sapphics, sonnets,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprose poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I accepted the job of editing, I wondered if I’d be bored by so many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems about ice cream; I wondered whether there would be hundreds of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoems about The Good Humor Man or Dairy Queen. But I needn’t have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworried, I was never bored. The Good Humor Man and Dairy Queen poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere there, of course, but I was amazed by the wide variety of subjects:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elight humorous poems, sweet poems, lusty poems, dark poems, poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabout childhood memories, a poem about Obama’s first date, and a poem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Paul Newman in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am pleased with this final collection of ice cream poems. I think readers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill enjoy them as much as I enjoyed reading and selecting them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Patricia Fargnoli, Editor, author of Hallowed (Tupelo Press, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MoonPath Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091052433648,"sku":"9781937797041","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937797041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}