{"product_id":"lamenting-while-doing-laps-in-bill-ratner-9798338782460","title":"Lamenting While Doing Laps In The Lake: Poems by Bill Ratner","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAMENTING WHILE DOING LAPS IN THE LAKE\u003c\/b\u003e by \u003cb\u003eBILL RATNER\u003c\/b\u003e, is a poetry book of humor, elegy, childhood adventure, and adult insight. A book of remembering, forgetting, reinventing, and re-mythologizing the world with a brilght lightness of heart, blended with the detail of fine china and the honesty of a condemned man, or a toddler with an outrageous command of language, detail, and style.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNine time MOTH StorySLAM champion \u003c\/b\u003eas well as, Grief Counselor in the State of California\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBill Ratner, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e gives us this finely-crafted poetry, to go along with his previous collections \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTO DECORATE A CASKET\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, from Finishing Line Press and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFEAR OF FISH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e from Alien Buddah Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLamenting While Doing Laps in the Lake \u003c\/i\u003eoffers us two aspects of poet Bill Ratner. Part 1, \"Youth,\" is a memoir in fragments, recalling a boy's upstanding Midwestern family who, one by one, die. The poems remain faithful to the child's perspective as he strives to make sense of these losses. In part 2, \"Age,\" Ratner observes the world of his adulthood, weaving the sublime, the ridiculous, and the unpredicted into a thrill ride that unhinges logic and leaves us with an expanded sense of possibilities. - Terry Wolverton, \u003ci\u003e Poet, Author of Ruin Porn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Ratner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798338782460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Bill Ratner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47201054884095,"sku":"9798338782460","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a97e4c6-8103-4c4a-8e7f-96c0f06d7c73.jpg?v=1756788734","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lamenting-while-doing-laps-in-bill-ratner-9798338782460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}