{"product_id":"the-parakeets-of-brooklynparrocchetti-di-gerry-lafemina-9781884419676","title":"The Parakeets of Brooklyn\/Parrocchetti Di Brooklyn","description":"LaFemina's book is the Bordighera Poetry Prize #6, first published in 2005. \"What draws me to Gerry LaFemina's poems is how much of the world they contain: Brooklyn streets, race-tracks, Vietnam, a boy's imagined transgressions, family dramas. What is compelling is the tension between the speaker's urge to understand and they mystery that resists explanation - the partial understandings, the misunderstandings of childhood.... listen to how these poems search as they attempt to tease out meaning.[...] LaFemina's poems ripple with erotic desire, the budding sexuality of young boys, the lure of the nape hidden under a woman's hair, the interiority of the boy who'd slid into the sleeve of the dark suit left by his father.[...] It's a gritty and tender gamble.\" Donna Masini (Bordighera Poetry Prize judge)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerry Lafemina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1884419674\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781884419676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bordighera Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Gerry Lafemina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181476770047,"sku":"9781884419676","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94472b78-49bd-4f42-bcb1-0c8795fe5685.jpg?v=1690260660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-parakeets-of-brooklynparrocchetti-di-gerry-lafemina-9781884419676","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}