{"product_id":"the-parakeets-of-brooklyn-parrocchetti-di-brooklyn","title":"The Parakeets of Brooklyn\/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn","description":"LaFemina's book is the Bordighera Poetry Prize #6, first published in 2005. \"What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a boy's imagined transgressions, family dramas. What is compelling is the tension between the speaker's urge to understand and they mystery that resists explanation - the partial understandings, the misunderstandings of childhood.... listen to how these poems search as they attempt to tease out meaning.[...] LaFemina's poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman's hair, the interiority of the boy who'd slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father.[...] It's a gritty and tender gamble.\" Donna Masini (Bordighera Poetry Prize judge)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10378564\"\u003eGerry Lafemina\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bordighera Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781884419676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1884419674\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":"Bordighera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589196673261,"sku":"9781884419676","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_7271f72b-4b14-4a4e-903c-0a54f448e100.jpg?v=1702236673","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-parakeets-of-brooklyn-parrocchetti-di-brooklyn","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}