{"product_id":"my-lungs-are-a-divebar-paperback","title":"my lungs are a divebar - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Moore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGrant Whipple\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Walter Moore (BA, MFA, Ph.D.)--lauded bard who teaches in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University--presents this \u003cem\u003edive bar\u003c\/em\u003e book of guttural knowledge. Set in rural Indiana and urban Washington (some Texas too), these are \"tween\" poems for the \u003cem\u003eeveryperson\u003c\/em\u003e. Poems that celebrate the all-but-forgotten \u003cem\u003ebeautifuls\u003c\/em\u003e . . . an awards ceremony that offers saint statues to degenerates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome words: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Walter Moore's poems are a hell of a ride down a hard highway. Read this book.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Donaldson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hilarious, painful, and outrageous - often in the same phrase. Drawing from overheard fist fights, willfully eschewed observations, and half-a-lifetime of wrong turns turned right, Walter Moore crafts nail-sharp poems and prose explosions with a kind of screaming, laughing brilliance that is not be missed. These pages will slap your eyes until everything you see shines.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eOwen Egerton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here is an honest underworld of poverty, booze, smoke, fighting, loving, debt, work, and redemptive friendship. The players are self-deprecating and cocky, punkish and tender, absurd and sincere as they make fun of and try to hang on to their troubled America. Walter Moore is a terrific poet whose voice is soaked in the millennial experiences of music, film, media and seeing through bullshit.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Hughes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42128472637575,"sku":"9780999713846","price":15.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ea77ec50fe67daccf255680dc2d4c4cf.webp?v=1732595750","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/my-lungs-are-a-divebar-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}