{"product_id":"sunday-poems-raph-koster-9780996793704","title":"Sunday Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eStarting in 2005, game designer Raph Koster decided to post a poem to his popular blog every Sunday. Ten years later, this is a selection of eighty of those poems, accompanied by gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations and illuminating endnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese are verses written to an audience that didn't necessarily care about poetry; verses about whatever was happening that week. They comment on the news, on his children's homework, on books he was reading or music he heard. In them we voyage across the world, or deep inside apples; we see a toddler become a pterodactyl, and clouds become mundane water vapor. We see sonnets written in computer code.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese are poems for everyday people about ordinary things made extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIn these engaging poems, which tease the conventions of formal verse, Raph Koster shines a curiosity laser on topics ranging from the building of the Globe Theatre to the BASIC programming language. Koster memorializes far-flung journeys through such locales as mountainous Afghanistan, exurban China, Las Vegas casinos, and a very real-seeming Seoni jungle visited not IRL but through Kipling and gaming.\u003cbr\u003e -Tarin Towers, author of \u003cb\u003eSorry, We're Close\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOn a stormy night in Tuscaloosa, reading Raph Koster's collection of poems: I congratulate you on the sustained and sustaining enthusiasm, joy, play, and wit at work in these poems. In your poems - as in the gaming world - you've created a richly varied world saturated with myth and stories.\u003cbr\u003e -Hank Lazer, poet, author of \u003cb\u003eThe New Spirit\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eN18 (complete)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raph Koster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0996793704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996793704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Altered Tuning Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.33d","brand":"Raph Koster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120618467583,"sku":"9780996793704","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_869b8324-f691-445f-a0d7-5306bf73ce56.jpg?v=1687415325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sunday-poems-raph-koster-9780996793704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}