{"product_id":"imperial","title":"Imperial","description":"In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9\/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance--the necessity--of myth.","brand":"George Bilgere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43826939002922,"sku":"9780822962687","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imperial-2495359.jpg?v=1763133192","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/imperial","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}