{"id":29996,"date":"2022-06-21T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29996"},"modified":"2022-06-20T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T23:22:07","slug":"book-report-within-this-center-by-robert-c-jones-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/21\/book-report-within-this-center-by-robert-c-jones-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Within This Center<\/i> by Robert C. Jones (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI read this book over a week ago, before my vacation, and just a little after Thin Ice and Other Poems<\/a><\/em>. This, too, is a chapbook, with poems on the right page and photos by the author on the left.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the printing quality does not do justice to the photographs. The poems are, however, a cut above Thin Ice and Other Poems<\/em>, with some imagery and fairly clear points–mostly about the cycle of life, with a lot of thematic influence on plants growing and dying and a lot of reliance on colors, especially yellows and greens. But the poems at least have imagery and try to evoke things, although again, I would say the lines are too short, broken too often by line breaks for ponderous pauses. <\/p>\n

Of course, I find myself writing fairly run on poetic lines these days, so I can’t really complain too much about the line length. No, wait: This is my blog. I will complain all I want.<\/p>\n

So overall middle of the road; average. Which is not something to sneeze at in poetry, given all the bad poetry I read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this book over a week ago, before my vacation, and just a little after Thin Ice and Other Poems. This, too, is a chapbook, with poems on the right page and photos by the author on the left. Unfortunately, the printing quality does not do justice to the photographs. The poems are, however, […]<\/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-29996","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\/29996","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=29996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29997,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29996\/revisions\/29997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}