{"product_id":"lean-on-the-wind-a-collection-of-poems-celebrating-life-9781450260060","title":"Lean on the Wind: A Collection of Poems Celebrating Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor Patricia Salter was born into a lively and creative family. The second of five children, her father was a professor and her mother a published poet. Although she was born in Philadelphia, she has lived the greater part of her life in Madison, Wisconsin. Hers was a peripatetic family, giving her and her siblings the opportunity to live East, West, and South while growing up. \u003cb\u003eLean on the Wind\u003c\/b\u003e reflects the passions and challenges of her younger years, while also demonstrating her love of music, art, gardening, and nature. Although most of the poems were written nearly a half century ago, these words, like a just-discovered fine wine, have mellowed with the years and come to us as smooth, evocative and satisfying. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePoet's Apology\u003c\/b\u003e How else can I say what the sky is tonight, Where is there a word still unsung? There's a ribbon of gold-alas!-this is trite But still 'tis a ribbon-far flung, From the reaches of heaven to the edge of the earth, A ribbon of gold is unfurled, Ah! I mourn that there is in my brain such a dearth Of words to describe my loved world. But what can I do, that's not long since been done By poets more skillful than I- They wrote of this beauty 'ere I had begun, Yet, I am here now. I must try!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781450260060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Patricia L. Salter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43505837932725,"sku":"9781450260060","price":9.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_44b506b4-6971-479b-9065-89f9c73f824f.jpg?v=1705424842","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lean-on-the-wind-a-collection-of-poems-celebrating-life-9781450260060","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}