{"product_id":"baron-and-the-bookseller-book-june-calvin-9780451182395","title":"The Baron And the Bookseller","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of loosely connected poetry, a cozy Midwestern college town serves as a backdrop for Edward Austin Robertson to explore the differences between perception and reality; and examine what it means to be a human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly influenced by Raymond Carver, Gary Snyder, and Langston Hughes, Robertson sets out to illustrate how one's internal world often matches one's external world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems About Lawrence\u003c\/em\u003e is an homage to places that exist now in name only, and reflects on the sacrifices made in the name of progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems capture the author's brief love affair with the Free State of Kansas with a series of snapshots about wanderlust, mythical figures, and the inevitability of change. The reader is asked to partake in a journey that is borne of curiosity and borders on the cavalier; as the narrator searches for the ghosts of Dr. James Naismith, Wilt Chamberlain, and William S. Burroughs. This volume of poetry, spanning four years, is Robertson's fifth collection to be published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49891513827601,"sku":"CIN0451182391VG","price":76.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0451182391.jpg?v=1750911003","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/baron-and-the-bookseller-book-june-calvin-9780451182395","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}