{"product_id":"red-and-yellow-boat","title":"Red and Yellow Boat","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRed and Yellow Boat, \u003c\/i\u003ehis second book, Anthony Petrosky, winner of the 1982 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets for \u003ci\u003eJurgis Petraskas, \u003c\/i\u003eweaves together themes of class and family conflict, unit and brotherhood, love, suffering, and transformation. These poems pay homage to the difficult lives of the working class, taking care to allow those lives their full complexity and revealing emotions that drive them both into and away from the realities of daily existence. Petrosky addresses one of these realities in \"\"My Father's Voice\"\":\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he talks suicide,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I tell him there are reasons to live,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and he tells me, with that voice,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e that I don't know what I'm talking about, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e that I don't know the pain he feels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He says it with the voice now inside of me,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e the one that speaks and snaps out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e when I am afraid or angry,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and I have begun to hear it in my sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCounterbalancing these emotions are poems that celebrate the triumph of love-the poet's love for his sons, for a woman, for lives that can be decisively changed. The result is a moving, intensely felt collection, a striking successor to the poet's first book.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807333728600,"sku":"9780807118313","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/red-and-yellow-boat","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}