{"product_id":"walking-between-the-raindrops-paperback","title":"Walking Between the Raindrops - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas DeFreitas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the poem \"Contributor's Note,\" Thomas DeFreitas introduces himself quite accurately as the often humorous and polymorphously talented poet that he is. These poems are personal to the point of universality. They reference the greats of literature along with the latest alt bands. He drinks \"lyric moonshine\" from the works of Dylan Thomas and brings us to understand the sensitivities of being the odd kid out. In this collection DeFreitas can rhyme playfully about the problems of modernity, or wax elegiac about the changing seasons. It's an ever-shifting canvas of darks and lights, tinged with a self-conscious intelligence we can relate to while avoiding raindrops, or whenever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003eLinda Haviland Conte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeldom Purely\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a \"land famished for grace,\" \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking Between the Raindrops\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a feast of necessary nourishment. Thomas DeFreitas' poetry drips with wit, wisdom, and the kind of tenderness and sensory detail that leaves you feeling like you too have sat with the \"gnarled and skimp-leaved trees\" of Cooke's Hollow. Like a downpour that washes everything clean, or like a cup of good, black coffee, DeFreitas' poems are fresh, real, alive, and are certain to wake you up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003eJulia Fehrenbacher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaying in Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas is a sacra-sensual poet, speaking with tender reverence to the ritual props and set dressing of everyday life. He is a poet's poet in capturing self-illumination, ever-noticing the Cupid's arrow\/Annunciation moments of Muse piercing and gracing the writer. He falls in wholesome love via holy triptych-panels (stanzas) of watching the world. This collection evokes Spencer Reece, Baudelaire as a Boston \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eflâneur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Tony Hoagland, Mary Oliver (if she were a city mouse), and has Ginsberg's expansiveness. \"My sight would shelter in the candle-dotted dark \/ of an ancient monastery's chapel.\" All who populate these poems are candle-dots in a beloved, beckoning sacred worldscape. It is an honor to read these poems and feel you are welcome, sitting beside a \"poetfriend\" on a cushioned pan-spiritual pew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003cb\u003ejojo Lazar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Poet-Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53550988067123,"sku":"9781639807048","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-between-the-raindrops-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}