{"product_id":"spring-mills-poems-paperback","title":"Spring Mills: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Schneider\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-\"shining image of youth \u0026amp; freedom\"-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of \"manual transmission, \/ hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H,\" and the poet's sonic facility opens our ears to the \"metallic \/ industrial click \/ of shifting gears.\" With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what's \"fizzy out there in the universe\"-not only for elusive cosmological \"dark matter\" but also to hear our inner voices, human \"dark matter.\" In \"Once Upon a Time,\" a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an \"unfolding like a rose in bloom\" and \"Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?\"-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of \"Summer evening quietness. A breeze. \/ The big tree across the street. \/ Everything made sense.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734433501247,"sku":"9781933974514","price":31.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7824504473548e654c8919234e817802.webp?v=1765139860","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/spring-mills-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}