{"product_id":"imperial-george-bilgere-9780822962687","title":"Imperial","description":"In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9\/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance--the necessity--of myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Bilgere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822962683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822962687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.25w x 0.28d","brand":"George Bilgere","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986734612735,"sku":"9780822962687","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc896f09-a15f-406b-81aa-7a9415833a1e.jpg?v=1683284886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imperial-george-bilgere-9780822962687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}