{"product_id":"honey-in-the-tape-deck-sampson-starkweather-9798992483871","title":"Honey in the Tape Deck: New \u0026 Uncollected Poems","description":"From the author of the groundbreaking debut \u003ci\u003eThe First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather\u003c\/i\u003e which \"took the poetry world by storm\", to the follow-up, initially banned, instant classic \u003ci\u003ePAIN: The Board Game\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the eagerly anticipated mega collection \u003ci\u003eHoney in the Tape Deck: New \u0026amp; Uncollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. Over 20 years in the making, which for the first time collects the very best of Starkweather's enthralling poetry. \u003ci\u003eHoney\u003c\/i\u003e offers new writing alongside a wide range of unpublished or out-of-print underground cult classics from Starkweather's trademark wit, attunement to the absurd and dark comic illuminations of truth, to the flowing lyric sublime and surreal sprawling cinematic poems embodied with vivid images and metaphors, all set to an irresistible rhythm. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoney\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously tender, revolutionary, dire, heartbreaking, critical, sensual, thought-provoking, chiseled to crystallized precision, full of near constant surprise and fun. Both contemporary and timeless, these are poems that are useful and instructive in any era-- whether to start a riot, as a balm for the soul, or to make you feel less alone. \u003cbr\u003eStarkweather's writing is always generous and inviting, bringing the reader along, like a cloaked guide to the night, to life, to possibility... beckoning, come, follow me, enter. The poems in \u003ci\u003eHoney in the Tape Deck\u003c\/i\u003e, full of play, push the limits of imagination, language, and of what's possible in a poem (and we all know anything can happen in a poem!): Horses escaping on an LA Freeway, looting dust from the museum of the moon, a green bull sitting in a yellow corvette at a red light, rain that goes the wrong way, drinking a beer and reading poems with the Incredible Hulk, every bullet ever reversing back into their barrels, back into soft metals, back into the earth to sleep for eternity... inviting us into it's wild generous dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sampson Starkweather\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798992483871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Third Man Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sampson Starkweather","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001070002431,"sku":"9798992483871","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/honey-in-the-tape-deck-sampson-starkweather-9798992483871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}