{"id":13753,"date":"2019-06-12T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=13753"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:32:20","slug":"days-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/days-of-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poetry | paper | 160 pgs | $15.95 |
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-36-5<\/p>\n

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Days of Our Lives<\/em><\/h1>\n

Joan Aleshire<\/h2>\n

Gold Winner of a Human Relations Indie Book Award<\/a><\/h5>\n

Day of Our Lives<\/em> is equal parts social history and memoir documenting the unraveling of a marriage against the backdrop of the shifting social mores of 1960s and \u201970s America. Joan Aleshire\u2019s speaker, a young wife, enters marriage gratefully, even eagerly, believing it to be \u201ca long table \/ with friends crowding in, red wine \/ in tumblers.\u201d Motherhood follows, but so do infidelities and reconciliation and ultimately divorce. With each hard knock, the speaker sheds a little more of her innocence as she gains awareness of her power as both a woman and a writer: \u201cComing home \/ late from a festival for women \/ where I\u2019d said all the things \/ the audience liked, I slipped \/ into bed so flush with triumph \/ my husband recoiled from the heat.\u201d<\/p>\n

For What We Are About to Receive<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know I\u2019d wanted this\u2014
\nlong tables covered in Indian prints
\nand laid with simple order for the meal,
\nand gathered there, the broken
\nand the lost, hoping to be mended
\nor found or soothed:
\nAnnie Murt, and Eddie D and all
\nthe others hurt from birth and cruelties,
\nbut as kind to me, a visitor,
\nas if they\u2019d always known kindness.<\/p>\n

For what we are about to receive:<\/em>
\nWe took our places at the tables,
\na dark, slim, dashing charmer
\nat mine, noticing me as I
\nnoticed him, and I began to sail,
\nwith hardly a thought, down the road
\nof sorrow, knowledge, and no regret:
\nall the life I\u2019ve had because of that evening,
\nthe man I fell in love with, or the place.<\/p>\n

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