{"product_id":"flying-on-invisible-wings-9781597190930","title":"Flying On Invisible Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall town boy journeys from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Manhattan: \u003c\/strong\u003e a riff on many famous movies and books. Except in this case the boy is gay, confused, frightened, and trying to find where he will fit in and be happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story has a happy ending--of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds companionship, happiness, and his proud gay identity in the Big City. But it also has a sad ending--of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds out he has HIV, almost dies, gets almost well, then meets another illness--Inclusion Body Myositis. He is confined to a wheelchair. And yet--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the same year he becomes wheelchair-bound, the man rediscovers an old love: writing poetry. He begins to write. He writes more. He becomes adept. His poetry soars. \"This,\" he says, \"is what I should have been doing all along.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you read the poems of F lix Garmend a, you will say to yourself, \"This is what I should have been reading all along.\" You will discern influences from Whitman, from Neruda, and also from the art of Frida Kahlo, with whom Felix feels a particularly strong kinship as a disabled artist. After all, he says, they both fly on invisible wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book you will discover poems light as the summer art in Fort Tryon Park, poems as down and raunchy as a honky-tonk on Canal Street, poems as pensive and stately as the Statue of Liberty and her pedestal. For in many ways this book also pays homage to New York, F lix's fiercely loved home since 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHappy, sad, frightened, soaring, ecstatic, loving. Moods galore and then some. Images that magic you from deep anguish to utter excitement and bliss. Come fly with F lix. You will never read anything quite like these poems. You may even find your own invisible wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearlsong Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359037362450,"sku":"9781597190930","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_132b1782-e9df-44c8-b102-c96a3feebfa4.jpg?v=1728349518","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flying-on-invisible-wings-9781597190930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}