{"product_id":"spring-mills-poems-9781933974514","title":"Spring Mills: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-\"shining image of youth \u0026amp; freedom\"-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of \"manual transmission, \/ hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H,\" and the poet's sonic facility opens our ears to the \"metallic \/ industrial click \/ of shifting gears.\" With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what's \"fizzy out there in the universe\"-not only for elusive cosmological \"dark matter\" but also to hear our inner voices, human \"dark matter.\" In \"Once Upon a Time,\" a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an \"unfolding like a rose in bloom\" and \"Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?\"-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of \"Summer evening quietness. A breeze. \/ The big tree across the street. \/ Everything made sense.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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-303950\"\u003eMike Schneider\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ragged Sky Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933974514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933974516\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-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ragged Sky Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44525578715373,"sku":"9781933974514","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_69ac9553-b3d4-458b-8a08-95f64c9faeb3.jpg?v=1701351890","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/spring-mills-poems-9781933974514","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}