{"product_id":"9781940696362","title":"Power Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Thom Gunn, Barbara Guest, Robert Creeley, Philip Lamantia, all ghosts now, are invoked without sentiment and with plenty of wry humor.\" —Kevin Killian, \u003ci\u003eAttention Span\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing. So too is Caples's \u003ci\u003ePower Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e . His poems and prose pieces are bizarre and hilarious, in which Dylan and Bowie sit alongside the French surrealists, with the occasional turn into heartfelt romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Garrett Caples Rides Again\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003emy concealed carry personality\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ehas deformed my trouser content\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eto the extent my permit permits\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ei'm shooting off often in public\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ei'm a blow dart in a wind tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eaimed in the wrong direction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ea boycotted russian vodka distiller\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ean assdial away from arrest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGarrett Caples\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eRetrievals\u003c\/i\u003e , two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Garrett Caples Reader, Complications\u003c\/i\u003e , and the pamphlet \u003ci\u003eQuintessence of the Minor\u003c\/i\u003e . He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, Particulars of Place\u003c\/i\u003e by Richard O. Moore, and \u003ci\u003eIncidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e by Frank Lima. He is an editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He was also a contributing writer to the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e . He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley and lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040523763952,"sku":"9781940696362","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940696362_p0.jpg?v=1763668877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940696362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}