{"product_id":"my-sixties-9781646628827","title":"My Sixties","description":"Peter Krass is taking us, his readers, on quite a trip (and given the Sixties reference, the word's two-at least-meanings pertain) in these poems. Time is sandwiched, hijacked and serenaded (\"To travel like this is to fly, \/ free and high, like a kettle of kites,\") between youth and older age. The poet, side-kicking along with Bruce Springsteen and his desire \"to change the world \/ with nothing more than air\", encounters his muse, dead friends and even Billy Collins along the way. Funny, moving, thought-provoking, it's quite a trip indeed, on which we're all beginners, hitchhiking our way across time.\u003cstrong\u003e-Philip Schultz\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and founder\/director of The Writers Studio\u003cbr\u003eFrom the vantage point of his sixties, PJ Krass\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ereturns, in these wonderfully allusive poems, to his childhood in the 60s, that time of incense and headshops and Beatles and Stones in which both his selves, \"the holy one \/ and the sinner,\" were shaped by a pop culture that zigzagged toward a \"seemingly solid adult world.\" Then and now \"a nation torn in two,\" this America of \"disappointed dirt\" still offers its muted pleasures: \"Even the fortune teller's booth, \/ boarded up and empty, \/ keeps a secret of the past.\" That secret is almost revealed in elegiac poems tempered with humor and scored, always, with \"a music strange but welcoming.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-Michael Waters\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaw\u003c\/em\u003e and other books of poetry; co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBorder Lines: Poems of Migration\u003c\/em\u003e and other anthologies; Guggenheim Fellow; and five-time Pushcart Prize recipient\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15485403\"\u003ePj Krass\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646628827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646628829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44527671050477,"sku":"9781646628827","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_78fd5f19-fabc-42de-b1c6-c4b991e5182e.jpg?v=1701378022","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/my-sixties-9781646628827","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}