{"product_id":"my-sixties-paperback","title":"My Sixties - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePj Krass\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Krass is taking us, his readers, on quite a trip (and given the Sixties reference, the word's two-at least-meanings pertain) in these poems. Time is sandwiched, hijacked and serenaded (\"To travel like this is to fly, \/ free and high, like a kettle of kites,\") between youth and older age. The poet, side-kicking along with Bruce Springsteen and his desire \"to change the world \/ with nothing more than air\", encounters his muse, dead friends and even Billy Collins along the way. Funny, moving, thought-provoking, it's quite a trip indeed, on which we're all beginners, hitchhiking our way across time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Philip Schultz\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and founder\/director of The Writers Studio\u003cbr\u003eFrom the vantage point of his sixties, PJ Krass\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ereturns, in these wonderfully allusive poems, to his childhood in the 60s, that time of incense and headshops and Beatles and Stones in which both his selves, \"the holy one \/ and the sinner,\" were shaped by a pop culture that zigzagged toward a \"seemingly solid adult world.\" Then and now \"a nation torn in two,\" this America of \"disappointed dirt\" still offers its muted pleasures: \"Even the fortune teller's booth, \/ boarded up and empty, \/ keeps a secret of the past.\" That secret is almost revealed in elegiac poems tempered with humor and scored, always, with \"a music strange but welcoming.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Michael Waters\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaw\u003c\/em\u003e and other books of poetry; co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBorder Lines: Poems of Migration\u003c\/em\u003e and other anthologies; Guggenheim Fellow; and five-time Pushcart Prize recipient\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734773043263,"sku":"9781646628827","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/281764aa7bea00ff846c10896cb23d52.webp?v=1765141048","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/my-sixties-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}