{"id":582,"date":"2020-09-24T04:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/bg_ybkpublishers.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=582"},"modified":"2025-05-21T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:39:39","slug":"life-poem-bob-holman","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/?product=life-poem-bob-holman","title":{"rendered":"Life Poem: Bob Holman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid_9\">\n<p>Bob Holman, 21 years old in 1971, and ready to take on life, takes on life by writing and submitting his (this) Life Poem for the &#8220;United States Award.&#8221; &#8220;Desperate now,&#8221; he says then, &#8220;I&#8217;ve started to write down everything that comes into my head.&#8221; And, in doing that it is set down here as well as having been submitted for recognition in 1971. Holman was (and continues to be) desperate not to let anything escape him.<\/p>\n<p>In the almost fifty years that intervenes between its writing and its publication, Bob Holman&#8217;s life has been in pursuit of being the poet. Success may change a man, but success does not change the poet. The poet will always seek that nothing escape him. Holman succeeds and shows you here the underpinnings of that success.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.asecurecart.net\/server\/cart.aspx\/ybkpublishers\" method=\"POST\"><b>Life Poem<\/b><br \/>\n104 pages<br \/>\n<b>ISBN<\/b>: 978-1-936411-54-2<br \/>\n<b>Price<\/b>: $18.95<br \/>\nThis book is the twelfth in the Bowery Books series.<br \/>\n<b>Qty<\/b>:\u00a0<input maxlength=\"4\" name=\"Qty\" size=\"2\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"Submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Add to Cart\" \/><\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Holman, 21 years old in 1971, and ready to take on life, takes on life by writing and submitting his (this) Life Poem for the &#8220;United States Award.&#8221; &#8220;Desperate now,&#8221; he says then, &#8220;I&#8217;ve started to write down everything that comes into my head.&#8221; And, in doing that it is set down here as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/?product=life-poem-bob-holman\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Poem: Bob Holman<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ybkpublishers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}