{"product_id":"the-last-time-i-saw-amelia-earhart-poems-9780892553150","title":"The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems","description":"Whether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in \"Circus Fire, 1944,\" which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populacein the edgy jazz portrait, \"Suite Billy Strayhorn,\" for example, or the enthralling, interwoven sequence, \"At the Adult Drive-In,\" which conveys, at once, a personal and communal corruption. Penetrating and compassionate, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\u003c\/i\u003e portrays, with a storyteller's arc, the troubled landscape of the left-behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCalvocoressi, Gabrielle:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eApocalyptic Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRocket Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e. She is Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an editor-at-large for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725351817490,"sku":"9780892553150","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab74ce70-0113-48b7-b954-a969f1fad88d.jpg?v=1734827334","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-time-i-saw-amelia-earhart-poems-9780892553150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}