{"id":2615,"date":"2013-08-22T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2615"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:52:11","slug":"unbuiltprojects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/unbuiltprojects\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbuilt Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 116 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-25-3<\/p>\n

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Unbuilt Projects<\/em><\/h1>\n

Paul Lisicky<\/h2>\n

\u201cThis is meant to be the story of all lives, though I’m talking about one in particular,\u201d Lisicky writes, and if the goal of\u00a0Unbuilt Projects<\/em>\u00a0is \u201cto be the story of all lives,\u201d Lisicky has succeeded. Adept at harnessing the highs of life that are ruthlessly countered by lows\u2014 \u201csee how the plants grow. And die a little\u201d\u2014these pieces are anchored by truths and by Truth. With an aptitude for creating vivid scenes, Lisicky envelops us in his stories, so though we did not stand under \u201cThe sky so scrubbed with stars it hurts,\u201d it is as if we did.<\/p>\n

We encounter a collision of God, sex, family, childhood and adulthood within the realm of these short fiction pieces, and we encounter the palpable pain of the speaker as he mourns a mother lost to dementia: \u201cWho knew you were the ground we walked on, dreamed on?\u201d Through the intersection of these varied themes, we are made privy to the speaker’s interior world\u2014\u201cAnd all I can say, today, is Joy, visit me now\u201d\u2014as well as made witness to the exterior world\u2014\u201cSun on skin, hot gold light frying the hydrangea.\u201d Ultimately, these stories give us everything, and so we are left wanting nothing, except more.<\/p>\n

From “The Roofers,” from\u00a0Unbuilt Projects<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I think I might be seeing what I want to see. I think I still want to believe in the God of my childhood, who was reminded, in song, that he\u2019d champion the peacemaker. I think I don\u2019t want to hear the military plane on its daily route just over the beach. I don\u2019t even want to know about the deer who stepped up to the stranger for a bite of his apple today. First he fed him half his apple, the roofer mutters, and then he shot him in the head. Sun on the floor. Tang of smoke in the nose and the eye. I freeze, as if the ghost of that animal\u2019s slipped in and out of the house, before I catch myself edging forward on the seat. A part of me wants more: death, death, the low, delicious word, whispered to me through night.<\/p>\n

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[column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 116 pages \u2022 16.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-25-3 Add to Cart [\/column] Unbuilt Projects Paul Lisicky \u201cThis is meant to be the story of all lives, though I’m talking about one in particular,\u201d Lisicky writes, and if the goal of\u00a0Unbuilt Projects\u00a0is \u201cto be the story of all lives,\u201d Lisicky has succeeded. Adept at harnessing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18573,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2615\/revisions\/18573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}