{"product_id":"olympic-john-l-miller-9781956285093","title":"Olympic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOlympic, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e by John L. Miller, is a dynamic collection of personal, persona, and pandemic poems inspired by various Greek mythological tales, guided by Robert Graves' \u003cem\u003eThe Greek Myths\u003c\/em\u003e. Throughout the book, John Miller masterfully employs this mythology as a creative vehicle to both witness and contemplate the current realities of life against a backdrop of history and legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOlympic\u003c\/em\u003e offers a vision of the past enfolded into our burgeoning future, in the form of the intimate whisper of a secret witness to the inner lives of the gods who happens to have a time machine, allowing the poet and his readers to slip through a portal to Ancient Greece and back again, sometimes before we've reached the end of a single line of poetry.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Christopher Luna, Clark County, WA Poet Laureate 2013-2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through the lens of Greek mythology, John Miller questions the assumptions and realities of today's world. The answers are sometimes clear; often the reader is left to contemplate the meaning of the silence after his questions have been put, a silence as resonant as that after a bell has been struck. There is pleasure aplenty in these troubling, lyrical, and probing poems.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Bruce Parker, author of \u003cem\u003eRamadan in Summer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John L. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1956285091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956285093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d","brand":"John L. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078700626175,"sku":"9781956285093","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a1dcb0b-6658-4b8e-9373-d0f5c65ec0dd.jpg?v=1685477010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/olympic-john-l-miller-9781956285093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}