{"id":44,"date":"2005-11-07T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-11-07T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:04:47","slug":"sad-little-breathing-machine-by-matthea-harveygraywolf-press-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/sad-little-breathing-machine-by-matthea-harveygraywolf-press-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea HarveyGraywolf Press, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poems filled with twists of meanings, wordplay that depends on the break of a line (&#8220;Little was left of the forest.\/Large was ten miles ahead.&#8221;). Images that resonate (ducks glowing softly in the night, snow falling between trains). Wit and subtlety and a little bit of sadness. As entire pieces, the prose poems are my favorites: they&#8217;re fairy tales for a different world, a world askew. In &#8220;Baked Alaska, a Theory Of&#8221; there are princesses and a king, a castle whose spaces are named for the chambers of the heart; &#8220;The Transparent Heir Apparent&#8221; features just that. &#8220;Save the Originals&#8221; is unexpected and perfect, probably my favorite poem in this volume (&#038; to describe it would be to take away the fun).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems filled with twists of meanings, wordplay that depends on the break of a line (&#8220;Little was left of the forest.\/Large was ten miles ahead.&#8221;). Images that resonate (ducks glowing softly in the night, snow falling between trains). Wit and subtlety and a little bit of sadness. As entire pieces, the prose poems are my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}