{ "item_title" : "Small Sovereign", "item_author" : [" Michael Goldman "], "item_description" : "In Small Sovereign, his second full-length collection, poet Michael Favala Goldman draws on experience as a remodeling carpenter, a jazz musician, a Danish translator, a gardener and a parent, to draw us into greater awareness of life's minute pains and victories from numerous points of view. We are all sharing atoms, at least/.../like the sea mixes with the sky/words do not keep them apart. The poems explore the paradox of personal power and powerlessness, using everyday experience as a door to the universal. The organization has its priorities/which do not include delight.Goldman invites the reader to join him in mundane and transformational experiences, such as picking up a hurt elk, walking by a train-car diner, riding an escalator, touring fields of Verona, making soup for a sick friend, gluing a broken table, and choosing flooring. All that separates you/from your surroundings/is your imagination/of yourself being who you are.The poems of Small Sovereign are short, direct, ironic, touching, and get richer with multiple readings. don't expect me to stand in the way/I'm small everywhere/except in my little life/where I am a clumsy giant/trying desperately not/to destroy my own city.As a collection, the poems inhabit the space between the material world and emotion-based relationships, placing ourselves starkly in this gap, with the responsibility for bridging it, amid progress and failures: it's almost too much, growing/a love that consumes everything.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/95/047/516/1950475166_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.95", "online_price" : "16.95", "our_price" : "16.95", "club_price" : "16.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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