{"product_id":"born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-north-east-poets","title":"Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The North East 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 Eric Meyers, Patricia Rodriguez, John-Michael MacDonald(Unabridged: 4hrs 31mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Stephen Vincent Benét, Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Van Dyke, Philip Freneau, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Angelina Weld Grimke, Joyce Kilmer, Amy Lowell, H P Lovecraft, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow \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\u003e168 carefully curated poems from the regions finest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44162178711630,"sku":"AB-478486","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/BornintheUSA-ExploringAmericainPoems-TheNorth-EastPoets.jpg?v=1786626477","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/en-gb\/products\/born-in-the-usa-exploring-america-in-poems-the-north-east-poets","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}