{"id":13901,"date":"2014-11-03T05:58:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2014-11-03T05:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:58:57","slug":"book-report-as-autumn-approaches-by-ronald-e-piggee-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/book-report-as-autumn-approaches-by-ronald-e-piggee-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>As Autumn Approaches<\/i> by Ronald E. Piggee (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/asautumnapproaches.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">This book is a chapbook written by a Vietnam veteran, a black father in Nebraska in 1993.  The poetry within ranges through a bunch of different styles, including free verse and at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villanelle\" target=\"_blank\">villanelle<\/a>.  It&#8217;s better than a lot of chapbooks I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>The book led me to some personal musings, though.  In 1993, my father was two years away from dying from cancer; he was a Vietnam-era veteran who served in Okinawa instead of Vietnam (and I think he felt a little guilty about it).  It&#8217;s hard for me to imagine him writing poetry, but that was not his way.  He was a hands guy: his creative hobby of the time period was building elaborate ship models that required him to tie nautical knots in thread using a magnifying glass and tweezers.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy that a book of poems about growing older would make me think about my father, how he didn&#8217;t grow older, and how I will not long be older than he ever was.  Or maybe not so crazy, since that&#8217;s what poetry does.  So consider that an endorsement of this book: It was definitely evocative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a chapbook written by a Vietnam veteran, a black father in Nebraska in 1993. The poetry within ranges through a bunch of different styles, including free verse and at least one villanelle. It&#8217;s better than a lot of chapbooks I&#8217;ve read. The book led me to some personal musings, though. In 1993, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13902,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions\/13902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}