{"product_id":"poetry-post-and-riposte-2020-2022","title":"Poetry Post and Riposte, 2020-2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of lyric poems by two poets separated by half a world, but united in collaboration and friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKenneth Durham Smith and David Keith Johnson met at a bus stop in north Seattle between thirty and forty years ago. Striking up a conversation, they found they were both Midwesterners (Kenneth from Michigan, David from Nebraska), both holding down jobs as attorney assistants and both practicing poets.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir friendship has endured across the decades and (after Kenneth relocated to London) across the globe. In June of 2020, their ongoing conversation spawned something like a formal scheme they call Post and Riposte On no specific timetable, either Kenneth or David offers one of his poems to the other as a sort of provocation. Once two poems are juxtaposed, a one-word theme is agreed upon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44232184037537,"sku":"9781387633678","price":40.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/wdmm74-front-shortedge-384_29d8979a-09e1-4bf1-a7c3-70ce2bf4cfc6.jpg?v=1714486713","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/poetry-post-and-riposte-2020-2022","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}