{"product_id":"california-prayer-other-poems-joe-iii-montazo-9781478790082","title":"California Prayer \u0026 Other Poems 2010-2016","description":"The road trip is the prayer. California Prayer conveys the beauty of a false paradise, one we acknowledge is imperfect, but a finer place than the one we accept. Though applied here in a secular frame, a prayer is always honest. Pursuing true love, deliverance from addiction and the crossroads of identity and place perch on the fingertips and tongue of the poems within. Like a road trip, a prayer is not conceived by a preacher or a church - it is something personal, and comforting...and, while harmless, is ultimately futile. But, same as a journey with a destination but no map, something is learned, something is answered with no conceivable source. The road trip is the prayer. The poems in Other Poems 2010-2016 represent various styles and experiments in both experiencing and studying the importance of family history, identity, abstract and surreal memory and the timelessness of travel. They wind through a pivotal period of the author's life, attempting to reveal his authenticity as poet and human-being, and how they intersect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe III Montaño\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478790083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478790082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Joe III Montaño","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474083725567,"sku":"9781478790082","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1234a2d1-ebab-4d1f-b495-bf466b339628.jpg?v=1762314821","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/california-prayer-other-poems-joe-iii-montazo-9781478790082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}