{"id":24565,"date":"2019-05-20T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24565"},"modified":"2019-05-19T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T22:49:30","slug":"book-report-the-physics-of-love-by-carla-kirchner-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/book-report-the-physics-of-love-by-carla-kirchner-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Physics of Love<\/i> by Carla Kirchner (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thephysicsoflove.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought this book over the weekend<\/a>, and as I just completed Keats&#8217; &#8220;Hyperion&#8221;, I was looking for other poetry to clear my palate before jumping into Keats&#8217; posthumously published poems (which, I think, includes a sequel to &#8220;Hyperion&#8221; but fortunately not other bonzers of dubious merit and readability).<\/p>\n<p>I pretty much struck the jackpot with this book.<\/p>\n<p>The poetry&#8217;s themes include things I can relate to: Children growing up, getting older, and whatnot.  The lines are long and have a good mouthfeel, more of a spoken rhythm than a paper rhythm (as I explained when reporting on my <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/book-report-blood-song-by-michael-schmeltzer-2016\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my cousin-in-law&#8217;s book<\/a>).  I&#8217;ve even picked out a favorite piece in it, &#8220;Relativity&#8221;, which is about kids growing up, and I&#8217;ve thought I should try to capture similar sentiments in a poem of my own.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I sometimes read something that makes me want to write more, and this collection definitely did.  It&#8217;s fun to read, has some depth, and doesn&#8217;t take as long as a lot of Keats does.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.  It&#8217;s on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physics-Love-Concrete-Poetry-Chapbook\/dp\/0996475451\/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=concrete+wolf+poetry&#038;qid=1558305749&#038;s=gateway&#038;sr=8-3\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a> at less than the cover price.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s her only book so far.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book over the weekend, and as I just completed Keats&#8217; &#8220;Hyperion&#8221;, I was looking for other poetry to clear my palate before jumping into Keats&#8217; posthumously published poems (which, I think, includes a sequel to &#8220;Hyperion&#8221; but fortunately not other bonzers of dubious merit and readability). I pretty much struck the jackpot [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565","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=24565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24566,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24565\/revisions\/24566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}