{"product_id":"spring-mills-mike-schneider-9781933974514","title":"Spring Mills: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpring Mills, a small town in rural, central Pennsylvania, becomes in these poems by Mike Schneider a gathering place for four generations of a family over a century of time. Schneider takes readers to where a grandfather recalls using a hand-crank to start his Model T-\"shining image of youth \u0026amp; freedom\"-and Guernseys in a pasture bellow to be fed. Readers learn how father and son form links in a chain of \"manual transmission, \/ hands-on sequenced pattern of the letter H,\" and the poet's sonic facility opens our ears to the \"metallic \/ industrial click \/ of shifting gears.\" With these poems, we also go to where physicists search among what's \"fizzy out there in the universe\"-not only for elusive cosmological \"dark matter\" but also to hear our inner voices, human \"dark matter.\" In \"Once Upon a Time,\" a remarkable marriage of poetry with skilled science writing, the Big Bang is an \"unfolding like a rose in bloom\" and \"Love is evolution of the cosmos. What else can we do?\"-a thought the poem answers with longing for, perhaps, a simpler time, a Spring Mills of \"Summer evening quietness. A breeze. \/ The big tree across the street. \/ Everything made sense.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Schneider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933974516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933974514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ragged Sky Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Mike Schneider","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132974723327,"sku":"9781933974514","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bc8e702-4169-4da0-8bf4-2df63a970577.jpg?v=1687483362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spring-mills-mike-schneider-9781933974514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}