{"product_id":"quixote-contemplates-retirement","title":"Quixote Contemplates Retirement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLew Maltby\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a factory worker, trial lawyer, truck driver, soldier, and corporate executive. He wrote his first poem at 35. Urged by friends, he submitted it to the North Dakota State poetry competition and was amazed when he won.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLew finds poetry in unlikely places—tracer bullets over his head, the call of hyenas in the African night, the snarl of chainsaws, prostitutes staggering home at 5 AM.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 2020 to 2023, he was managing editor of\u003cem\u003e U.S. 1 Worksheets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis poems have appeared In \u003cem\u003eStillwater Review, River Poet’s Journal, Moonstone Press, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eU.S. 1 Worksheets. \u003c\/em\u003eKelsay Books published his first chapbook, \u003cem\u003eSmiling Axes,\u003c\/em\u003e in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 38 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (March 26, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462962442343,"sku":"sqw1787287065555","price":10.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/1601\/0087\/files\/quixote-contemplates-retirement_1.jpg?v=1787287070","url":"https:\/\/urbanstepfashion.shop\/products\/quixote-contemplates-retirement","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}