{"product_id":"collateral-9781957799513","title":"Collateral","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gary Lemons\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Moontide Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Moontide Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eCollateral\u003c\/i\u003e aren't blind to the sometimes subtle sometimes graphic suffering that happens as we move from first breath through illness--deprivation-- isolation. It's hard to imagine this when there are sufficient resources to experience love and happiness and good health but deep in our bodies I believe that witnessing suffering is the beginning of empathy. Then what-do we put up lives as collateral--risk everything to be of service--think of Doctors Without Borders--or turn our backs and walk away--or--as most of us do--build our house somewhere between action and indifference. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese poems are vessels with my life inside them. The revolutionary and the sleepwalker-the witness and the victim--merged. If I'm lucky perhaps readers will find themselves in these poems as well.","brand":"Moontide Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882785980567,"sku":"9781957799513","price":1420.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781957799513.webp?v=1781097047","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/collateral-9781957799513","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}