{"product_id":"born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-massachusetts-poets","title":"Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Massachusetts Poets","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA celebration of American poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Richard Mitchley, Patricia Rodriguez, Eric Meyers(Unabridged: 1hrs 34mins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Phillip Henry Savage \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePoetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the tiny Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its history is scarred with tragedy, much of its own making, and yet its natural beauty and its kaleidoscope of cultures summon the envy of us all when put to verse by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amu Lowell, Emily Dickenson, William Cullen Bryant and James Russell Lowell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44162178646094,"sku":"AB-478479","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/BornintheUSA-ExploringAmericainPoems-TheMassasschusettsPoets.jpg?v=1786626473","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/en-gb\/products\/born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-massachusetts-poets","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}