{"product_id":"even-further-west-eric-paul-shaffer-9781947021174","title":"Even Further West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne evening on Lāhaina's Front Street, as Shaffer walked to an evening with friends, someone passing on the sidewalk commented, \"The islands are even further west than I thought.\" Those accidental words, like poetry, shifted his perspective once again regarding the place he lives. \u003cem\u003eEven Further West\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of poems written of, in, and on the Hawaiian islands. Companion volume to Lāhaina Noon, this collection includes poems striving to encounter and reveal the actual place and people hidden behind the pictures and posters, the myths and misunderstandings, of America's only tropical state.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYears ago assigned by a keen reviewer to the \"Clear Pool School\" of poetry, Shaffer's work again presents sharply detailed and unexpected scenes of how the blue world looks as a bouncing inflatable globe on a day at the beach, beneath a single streetlight on a dark upcountry road, after the surprise of \"NO TRESPASSING\" signs between slippahs and the sand, beyond our perverse thirst for apocalypse even in paradise. Yet a love for the land, people, friends, and significant others on the islands shines within these pages as well, in dry grass or rain, under plumeria and kiawe, and leads to lives that grow and flourish in the same landscape.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese poems encourage locals and visitors to the islands to stand on the sand, soil, and sidewalks of the islands of Hawai'i, on the shifting sea-drawn line on the sand before the deeps where we play, swim, and surf, and see exactly where we are.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Paul Shaffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1947021176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947021174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Eric Paul Shaffer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940307599615,"sku":"9781947021174","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b038fad1-1617-428f-9893-d7cfe72ac702.jpg?v=1681446441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/even-further-west-eric-paul-shaffer-9781947021174","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}