{"id":28764,"date":"2021-08-09T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28764"},"modified":"2021-08-08T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:43:36","slug":"book-report-poems-by-chris-alderman-and-harold-alderman-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/09\/book-report-poems-by-chris-alderman-and-harold-alderman-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Poems<\/i> by Chris Alderman and Harold Alderman (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/poemsaldermen.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I was in the mood for a chapbook, so I picked up this recent purchase.  I got it at a garage sale here in Springfield for fifty cents at a garage sale whose proprietrix said they had a great selection of books, but which looked to be mostly college Spanish and English literature textbooks.  I think I came away with two books: this book and another piece of classical literature in the expensive but cheap college paperback edition&#8211;it&#8217;s lost in the stacks already, so I cannot tell you what it was.<\/p>\n<p>This book, though, is a signed, numbered chapbook, number 159 of 300 published fifty-one years ago in California.  How it got to the garage sale of a recently enfamiliated college grad in Springfield, Missouri, I cannot tell you, either, but I always find these books&#8217; travels interesting.<\/p>\n<p>It collects poems of two people with the same last name.  The first section is Chris, and it&#8217;s the better section.  Medium-length lines, but definitely a rhythm that said Chris read the works aloud.  The second set, by Harold, is less good, but, still, overall, the collection was pleasant to read.  <\/p>\n<p>A quick search of the Internet does not yield a lot of information about either of the authors or them together, although one can find the book on Amazon for $17.50, which is not very <em>chap<\/em> at all.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B00AGLXM4O&#038;asins=B00AGLXM4O&#038;linkId=cdc278a8ea7d4642fa01e5b93bbee9ec&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the mood for a chapbook, so I picked up this recent purchase. I got it at a garage sale here in Springfield for fifty cents at a garage sale whose proprietrix said they had a great selection of books, but which looked to be mostly college Spanish and English literature textbooks. I [&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-28764","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\/28764","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=28764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28765,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions\/28765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}