{"product_id":"went-like-it-came-paperback","title":"Went Like It Came - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of these poems is some sort of story about stories. A crowded city undergoes a spell of enforced confinement. In a war of rumors and conspiracy theories, identities are stolen and shapeshifting outsiders infiltrate urban parks. New fiefdoms consolidate under the sign of pervasive unease. A landscape of dry rivers and toxic weeds reveals itself. Within the zone of isolation, all the stories play out again in the mind, through memory or dream or unexpected waking flash-spectral trespasses, plays staged in empty theaters, messages concealed in drowned books, lives that might have been lived but weren't, hermetic histories, lost paradises continuing to unreel in a subterranean screening room. The stories hang at last on a thread of melody, resolving themselves into a connecting filament that persists even at the core of silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAMPLE POEM: \u003cp\u003eThe Bed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are moments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen the sun is nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eorange glow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estaining a blank wall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the dying see doorways\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot visible to others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut cannot enter them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor even stir from the bed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere they beat their hands \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eagainst the barrier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.01 x 9.06 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43777206779967,"sku":"9781953252876","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/went-like-it-came-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}