{"id":29650,"date":"2015-07-22T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29650"},"modified":"2015-07-17T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T04:37:54","slug":"what-im-reading-this-city-by-jennifer-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/what-im-reading-this-city-by-jennifer-compton\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: \u201cThis City\u201d by Jennifer Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/27\/just-arrived-this-city-by-jennifer-compton\/this-city_jennifer-compton\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-29481 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/This-City_Jennifer-Compton-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"This City_Jennifer Compton\" width=\"187\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/This-City_Jennifer-Compton-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/This-City_Jennifer-Compton-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/This-City_Jennifer-Compton.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I purchased a copy of <strong><em>This City<\/em><\/strong> (Otago University Press, 2010), the Kathleen Grattan Award-winning book of poetry by my fellow Tuesday Poet, <a href=\"http:\/\/stillcraic.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Compton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it is wonderful, dear readers.<\/p>\n<p>I am blown away by the emotional depth and integrity of the poems, and the beauty of lines like:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Like breathing out forever, we announce our imminent absence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;The stink of success and their prowess evaporates,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>diffuses like a mist, a heady, foxy, delicious, momentary thing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They stand easy, the whisper of the cloth that folds them sings.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am so looking forward to reading MOAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I purchased a copy of This City (Otago University Press, 2010), the Kathleen Grattan Award-winning book of poetry by my fellow Tuesday Poet, Jennifer Compton. And it is wonderful, dear readers. I am blown away by the emotional depth and integrity of the poems, and the beauty of lines like: &#8220;Like breathing out forever, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29654,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions\/29654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}