{"product_id":"9780143121404","title":"My Favorite Warlord","description":"Author: Gloria, Eugene\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780143121404\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Group USA\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 May 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA third collection from an award-winning poet, author of\u003ci\u003e Sightseer in this Killing City,\u003c\/i\u003ewhose \"gift is breathtaking\" (Naomi Shihab Nye)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan's sixteenth-century warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet's father's dementia; \"Here on Earth\" embraces post-racial America and the speaker's own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria's own fears of frailty and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47322187497630,"sku":"UBD-9780143121404","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780143121404.jpg?v=1780447647","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780143121404","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}