{"id":3406,"date":"2013-08-28T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3406"},"modified":"2022-11-10T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:26:50","slug":"young-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/young-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Young of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3308\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front.jpg\" alt=\"Young of the Year Cover\" width=\"441\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front.jpg 441w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front-298x450.jpg 298w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Young-of-the-Year-front-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-10-9<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu\/Cart2\/Chicagobook?ISBN=9781935536109&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">Add to Cart<\/a><br \/>\n[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Young of the Year<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Sydney Lea<\/h2>\n<p>Sydney Lea\u2019s eighth collection of poems, <em>Young of the Year<\/em>, takes its title from \u201cthe term our old folks use to name \/ a prior spring\u2019s wild things.\u201d Casting a candid, contemplative look back at a life lived, and out at a world alive with motion, where \u201ckinglets were suddenly flying \/ from his south to land all around,\u201d <em>Young of the Year<\/em> offers a vital account of human life against the awesome scale of the kingdoms of animals, memories, and geology alike. These poems stretch out considered, affective\u00a0sentences that equally call to mind the heady \u201cwail and whisper and funk\u201d of musicians like Clifford Brown and Clyde McPhatter, the New England musings of Robert Frost, and Robert Penn Warren\u2019s\u00a0narratives and anecdotes. Engaging in a respectful \u201cDispute with Thomas Hardy,\u201d Lea pledges to\u00a0\u201ccling \/ the harder to gifts apparently given \/\/ without my having at all to deserve them: \/ flowers,\u00a0animals, glinting trees.\u201d Like Hardy, Lea is a poet sensitive to the detail of nature: not a Nature Poet, lost in metaphor, but a figure amid often-daunting environments recalling a time \u201cHe dug under feather and\u00a0flesh \/ for the sparrow\u2019s heart, a steaming purple pip \/ forever reduced to stillness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The magnificent extended series \u201cBirds, a Farrago\u201d narrates the gradual onset of \u201csymmetric\u201d post-viral\u00a0arthropathy: the speaker\u2019s muscles slowly seize, rendering him a watcher, headed deeper \u201cinto the\u00a0raven-black cave of self.\u201d Asking for miracles even as he knows he lives \u201camid such blessedness\u201d as his\u00a0\u201coldest child\u2019s \/ first child, the nails of her fingers so tiny \/ and nacred,\u201d the speaker of these poems\u00a0places his faith in a nature valued for its struggle, in the hope offered by a heterodox Christianity, and in a lone, dissenting doctor, the fondly depicted \u201cmilady\u201d who refuses to buy the rheumatoid diagnoses of\u00a0high-end medical clinics. Here, as elsewhere in <em>Young of the Year<\/em>, Lea poignantly traces the intersection between the worlds of nature, science, and the spiritual.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/sydneylea\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-10-9 Add to Cart [\/column] Young of the Year Sydney Lea Sydney Lea\u2019s eighth collection of poems, Young of the Year, takes its title from \u201cthe term our old folks use to name \/ a prior spring\u2019s wild things.\u201d Casting a candid, contemplative look back at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3406","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3406","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=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18545,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3406\/revisions\/18545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}