{"product_id":"an-oar-for-odysseus","title":"An Oar for Odysseus","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAn Oar for Odysseus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eis \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cooperman\u003c\/strong\u003e’s swansong to his multi-volume homage to Homer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey,\u003c\/i\u003e the first literary love of his life, going back to his junior high school’s library, where he found a prose translation and fell instantly in love with the larger-than-life rapscallion and his breathtaking and heart-stopping adventures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eAlong with his love for Homer, even if the bard was merely a scribe writing down what had been a long and glorious oral tradition, Cooperman has had a lifelong love affair with the Grateful Dead, about whom he’s written extensively, including a mini-\u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales \u003c\/i\u003eversion of the medieval folktale from which the band took their name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eCooperman has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSteerage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Rebirth of Ophelia,\u003c\/i\u003e both from Kelsay Books. \u003ci\u003eIn the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Colorado Book Award for Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eDraft Board Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (FutureCycle Books) was named one of the Ten Best Books by a Colorado Author by \u003ci\u003eWestword Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 132 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (December 17, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50210870853889,"sku":"zro1787304711172","price":14.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/1979\/5201\/files\/an-oar-for-odysseus_1.jpg?v=1787304718","url":"https:\/\/www.juniperavenue.shop\/products\/an-oar-for-odysseus","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}