{"product_id":"i-speak-cliche-eric-boyd-9798278688174","title":"I Speak Cliche: A Semi-Autobiographical Lie About True Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eI Speak Cliché - A Semi-Autobiographical Lie About True Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't come here expecting to learn what true love is.\u003cbr\u003eThis is poetry raised on Dr Pepper and real koláče, \u003cbr\u003ethe kind your granny made while y'all played farkle\u003cbr\u003eand slammed fingers that cast Czech curses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is poetry that fished Lake Palestine\u003cbr\u003ewith a man silenced by the ghosts of Korea\u003cbr\u003eand a grandfather who knew more about love\u003cbr\u003ethan Greek philosophers and college professors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is poetry haunted by the fleeting white doe\u003cbr\u003emy ancestors never quite hit, \u003cbr\u003eand by every love I never quite had.\u003cp\u003eMost of all, \u003cbr\u003eit's the sound of a 40-year-old East Texas boy with\u003cbr\u003ea graduate degree that hasn't amounted to much, \u003cbr\u003ea dead-end job, \u003cbr\u003eand one last tank of gas\u003cbr\u003edeciding to tell a few lies about true love while he can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf that sounds like something you need right now, I'd be honored if you bought it. I'm selling the first signed copies myself because I'm flat broke. Every sale keeps the lights on, keeps the poems coming, and keeps me trying again -- consequences be damned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThank you for keeping a Texas poet alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278688174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Eric Boyd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171227312383,"sku":"9798278688174","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-speak-cliche-eric-boyd-9798278688174","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}