{"product_id":"stanzas-in-america-9781939574428","title":"Stanzas in America","description":"\u003cem\u003eStanzas in America\u003c\/em\u003e offers readers a guided tour of our country's many rooms: past and present, personal and political, comfortable and calamitous. These poems are as American as JFK and the Second Amendment, Jesus Christ and the KKK, or Emily Dickinson and Erectile Dysfunction. If you have a lover's quarrel with the USA in the 21st century, this book just might be for you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen, Gilbert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gilbert Allen is the author of eight collections of poems and two collections of short stories. His work has received the Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review, The Amon Liner Award from The Greensboro Review, the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3, the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from the Emrys Journal, and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Your Daily Poem. In 2014 he was elected to the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the state's literary hall of fame. He lives on Paris Mountain with his wife, the educator and environmental activist Barbara Allen. He is the Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature Emeritus at Furman University.","brand":"Measure Press Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51831613391122,"sku":"9781939574428","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77efc2e8-dc2f-4ec4-88fd-80cb387b22ca.jpg?v=1767006410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stanzas-in-america-9781939574428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}