{"id":7791,"date":"2015-12-07T20:21:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2015-12-07T20:21:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:21:22","slug":"the-deep-zoo-by-rikki-ducornetcoffee-house-press-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-deep-zoo-by-rikki-ducornetcoffee-house-press-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deep Zoo by Rikki DucornetCoffee House Press, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this collection of fifteen short essays, but probably would have liked it more if I were more familiar with some of the subjects Ducornet is writing about. (I haven&#8217;t seen any David Lynch films, for example, and while I appreciated the language and images of &#8220;Witchcraft by a Picture,&#8221; I also felt a bit lost.) Some themes and interests surface in several essays: writing and what it is that writers do, seeds and origins and beginnings, dreams, seeing, making, beauty. I like the bits where Ducornet is writing about visual art, like when she&#8217;s talking about an Egyptian tomb and a painting in it, in &#8220;Books of Natural and Unnatural Nature,&#8221; or when she&#8217;s writing about <A href=\"http:\/\/margiemcdonald.com\/nav_gallery2012.htm\">Margie McDonald&#8217;s art<\/a> (there are pictures of several of McDonald&#8217;s &#8220;Sea &#8216;scape&#8221; sculptures in the book, which I appreciated). In another essay, Ducornet writes about a novel she wrote that has water as its guiding element, and these two sentences are enough to make me want to read her fiction: &#8220;Saturday and pissing vinegar. The old port has vanished in the rain; port and sky and sea all smeared together like a jam of oysters, pearl-grey and viscous&#8221; (43). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this collection of fifteen short essays, but probably would have liked it more if I were more familiar with some of the subjects Ducornet is writing about. (I haven&#8217;t seen any David Lynch films, for example, and while I appreciated the language and images of &#8220;Witchcraft by a Picture,&#8221; I also felt a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","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=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}