{"id":10340,"date":"2017-05-26T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=10340"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:16:50","slug":"children-are-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/children-are-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children Are Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-94-9<\/p>\n

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The Children Are Reading<\/em><\/h1>\n

Gabriel Fried<\/h2>\n

Gabriel Fried opens his most recent collection The Children Are Reading<\/em> with these lines: \u201cWhere have the children gone this time? \/ There they are, behind the house, \/ standing in a cautious arc \/ around the flowers we warned them about.\u201d The Children Are Reading<\/em> inhabits childhood spaces, physical and imaginative, on either side of the emergence of adult awareness, desires, and anxieties\u2014which isn\u2019t to say desires and anxieties don\u2019t exist on the childhood end of the spectrum. In many ways, those are more emphatic, less mitigated in the poems, unconstrained by the delusions and rationalizations of adulthood. The poems are at once bounding toward, admiring of, and anxious about those childhood spaces, sliding back and forth along the continuum of childhood\/adulthood on which fears of imaginative spaces crystallize and fluctuate. It would be inaccurate to think of adulthood as the place where wisdom pools in these poems, though it\u2019s in adulthood that some of the fears are reconceived and articulated. Fried shows us that there are powers and wisdoms held in childhood that are lost in adulthood, even with its increased autonomy of one sort or another.<\/p>\n

“School-Night out in a Venn Diagram\u201d from\u00a0The Children Are Reading<\/em>:<\/p>\n

We stand in the sliver
\nof shadows the circles
\nfrom streetlights make.
\nWe are almost out
\ntoo far, in a space
\nbarely safe and daring;
\nensphered in night,
\nits creature comforts,
\na darker shade of night
\naround it.<\/div>\n

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