{"product_id":"9781944497064","title":"Infrastructure: Dreams, Divinations \u0026 Dispatches From The Underground","description":"These poetry and poetic prose pieces, true to their title, follow the infrastructure of a life. A kid in love, reading to his first-grade teacher. An old man walking with friends in an Oregon forest, learning how life continues. A carpenter on the courthouse steps, showing Occupy Eureka how to build a place of refuge. With his wife Jenny, hearing war planes above a desert hot spring. Cheering the destruction on Demolition Derby Night at the Modoc County Fair. It was better than the Iraq War. No one was killed. Admission was only 8 dollars.A poem to uncover the underworld plot to overthrow Christmas and capitalism. Another to record a watershed meeting, an inter-species discussion of whether to let the humans vote. Following a remote and neglected state park trail, crossing rotten bridges, the title poem tries to answer Jenny's question: \"How did it get like this?\"A requested poem, for a friend whose young son has died in a senseless accident. The infrastructure we turn to: fledgling swallows on a power line, big mouths, pale fluff, scared and hungry. The nest of broken shells.On the Big Island, a quarter-mile-long ten-foot wall of carved blocks of lava, yet with a wide gate open to anyone seeking refuge. In the eastern Sierra, in a circular pool of concrete and stone, soaking up history with three Vietnam vets. In a repair shop on Broadway waiting for LouAnn who has small hands to replace a burned-out headlight that I can't get to. In the waiting room talking about old cars with a guy who's just come from taking his wife to the cancer clinic. Finding the infrastructure beneath a world designed to break and not be fixed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJerry Martien\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMany Names Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eOct 17, 2022\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e142 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-10: \u003c\/b\u003e1944497064\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e| \u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e9781944497064\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Many Names Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48483417555249,"sku":"9781944497064","price":18.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/8215\/8385\/products\/9781944497064.jpg?v=1710342620","url":"https:\/\/www.recomparo.com\/products\/9781944497064","provider":"ReComparo.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}