{"product_id":"if-i-said-that-i-mason-loika-9798295696657","title":"If I Said That I Would Love You: A Performance Poet's Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir by Mason Loika who grew up in Miami, Florida where he tanned as brown as a berry. His dark complexion kept him from touring at Princeton's (N.J.) American Boychoir School in 1956 out of fear audiences would consider the school had become integrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a pedophile attack by the school's guidance counselor, he found solace after his participation in a Carnegie Hall's annex to perform the same Mozart sonata for an audience of one: Louis Armstrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRock 'n' roll embraced his soul as he obsessed over watching American bandstand on TV. Once Loika started writing poetry, he joined the 1968 peace and love generation in Hollywood, California, wrote for both newspapers in Miami, and grieved over John Lennon's assassination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter relocating to a tony section of Pennsylvania, he drove a limousine back and forth into the Manhattan building where Lennon had died, and found happiness with his ultimate love, an unapologetic lesbian who danced on bandstand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mason Loika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295696657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mason Loika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Mason Loika","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588471566591,"sku":"9798295696657","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-i-said-that-i-mason-loika-9798295696657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}