{"product_id":"out-of-the-gate-ken-lauter-9781543440430","title":"Out of the Gate: Selected Early Poems 1960-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on poems composed between 1960 and 1970, Out of the Gate makes available for the first time a sampling of previously unpublished work by Ken Lauter, the author of fourteen previous books of poetry and a prose\/poetry memoir of his experiences as an environmental activist, The Ratlue Diaries: Two Poets and the Rocking K War in Tucson Arizona (SFA Press, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese early poems were originally assembled in three manuscripts: In Praise (which received a Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan), Metronome, and New Light. Lauter, now seventy-four, looks back on these poems written in his late teens and early twenties with a combination of bemusement and awe, seeing them as raw and remote, as though written not by him but by a ghost-poet he can now barely recognize. (The ghost, in fact, makes a surprise appearance at the end of the book.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes love poems to his wife (a neuroscientist, photographer, and poet, Judith Lauter); an elegy for his father; anti-Vietnam War protests; meditations on the Apollo mission to the moon, as well as on the music of Mozart and Beethoven; and several longer narratives on a variety of themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Lauter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1543440436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781543440430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"Ken Lauter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459461755135,"sku":"9781543440430","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0eaeb7db-be67-4abe-bef5-9e9cdb5ad4a1.jpg?v=1777409833","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/out-of-the-gate-ken-lauter-9781543440430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}