{"product_id":"winter-road","title":"Winter Road","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWinter Road\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLouis Jenkins\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780930100148\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoly Cow! Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e72\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Louis Jenkins writes satire as elegant as Horace but with motors in it and telephones and the North Shore.\"--Garrison Keillor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSeveral of these poems are included in the performance script for NICE FISH, the play.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the acknowledged \"master\" of the prose poem comes a new gathering of sixty poems. The work in \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Road\u003c\/i\u003e comprises an extended meditation on the nature of memory and its influence on everyday reality. Within poems that turn whimsical, ironic, and serious, whole imaginative worlds are created and glide the reader into pleasing and unexpected territory. As when Coronado's search for gold lands him empty-handed in Kansas, Jenkins reminds us that \"miracles always have a cost,\" and that our desire for absolute truth can sometimes lead us nowhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Jenkins'\u003c\/b\u003e poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003e et al. and in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 1999.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Duluth, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOld Man Winter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld man Winter doesn't like anything. He doesn't like dogs or\u003cbr\u003ecats or squirrels or birds, especially seagulls, or children or\u003cbr\u003esmart-ass college students. He doesn't like loggers or environ-\u003cbr\u003ementalists or snowmobilers or skiers in their stupid lycra outfits.\u003cbr\u003eHe doesn't like Christmas or television. He doesn't like bureau-\u003cbr\u003ecrats, lawyers or pliticians. There is a thing or two he could say\u003cbr\u003eto the host of the local talk-radio show but he knows for a fact\u003cbr\u003ethat the son-of-a-bitch does the broadcast from his condo in\u003cbr\u003eFlorida. He's pissed off about the OPEC oil conspiracy and the\u003cbr\u003econspiracy of gas station owners to raise prices. He doesn't like\u003cbr\u003eforeigners and he doesn't like his neighbors (not that he has\u003cbr\u003emany); when they finally die they just leave their junk all over\u003cbr\u003ethe yard. He doesn't like that. He doesn't like the look of the sky\u003cbr\u003eright now, either, overcast, a kind of jaundice color. He hates\u003cbr\u003ethat. And that stand of spruce trees behind the house turning\u003cbr\u003eblack in the dusk . . . . The way it gets dark earlier every day. He\u003cbr\u003edoesn't like that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Holy Cow! Press","offers":[{"title":"Winter Road | Louis Jenkins | Paperback | 9780930100148 | Used: Very Good | Poetry 1589211","offer_id":48712461713560,"sku":"1589211","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Winter Road | Louis Jenkins | Paperback | 9780930100148 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756391","offer_id":49146855358616,"sku":"1756391","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71L18qfF4EL.jpg?v=1773786584","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/winter-road","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}