{"id":642,"date":"2015-03-03T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:23:20","slug":"spec-poetry-article-at-bookslut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2015\/03\/03\/spec-poetry-article-at-bookslut\/","title":{"rendered":"Spec poetry article at Bookslut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookslut has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/facing_the_ravens_eye\/2015_03_021154.php\">article on speculative poetry<\/a> by Sessily Watt, featuring a review of <em>Stone Telling<\/em> 11. (The existence of this piece was kindly pointed out to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/carrienaughton.com\/\">Carrie Naughton<\/a>. Thanks, Carrie!) <\/p>\n<p>I was pretty much over the moon when I saw that the article includes a discussion of my poem <a href=\"http:\/\/stonetelling.com\/issue11-nov2014\/norja-kuura.html\">&#8220;Kuura (extract from a Finnish-English dictionary)&#8221;<\/a>. This is the first time someone has analysed my stuff in such depth. I feel so humbled and excited by this!<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poem gains a different reading from being placed within a magazine of speculative poetry, in which the unreal can be real. Just as the title invokes cultural crossings and dual-interpretations, the movement between Finnish and English, the speculative allows the descriptions to be both metaphor and real at once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Literary analysis. ABOUT MY POEM. I squeed so hard when I saw this, it was a bit embarrassing but luckily it was at 2am and I was home alone. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The article is a great perspective into speculative poetry in general, too: Sessily Watt, disillusioned by fiction, stumbled into the world of spec poetry and discovered she liked it. There&#8217;s also a good discussion of Ruth Jenkins&#8217; awesome hyperlink poem <a href=\"http:\/\/stonetelling.com\/issue11-nov2014\/jenkins-scales.html\">Scales<\/a>, in the same issue of ST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookslut has an article on speculative poetry by Sessily Watt, featuring a review of Stone Telling 11. (The existence of this piece was kindly pointed out to me by Carrie Naughton. Thanks, Carrie!) I was pretty much over the moon when I saw that the article includes a discussion of my poem &#8220;Kuura (extract from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,6],"tags":[149,23,12],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flailing","category-linkage","category-poetry","tag-bookslut","tag-huzzah","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}