{"id":4306,"date":"2013-09-13T20:39:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=4306"},"modified":"2022-11-17T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:33:49","slug":"eye-of-the-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/eye-of-the-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye of the Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Eye-of-the-Blackbird-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2908\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 550px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Eye-of-the-Blackbird-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Eye of the Blackbird Cover\" width=\"127\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 64 pages \u2022 12.95<br \/>\nISBN-10:\u00a01-884800-12-2<\/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=1884800122&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Eye of the Blackbird<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Mary Ann McFadden<\/h2>\n<p>Winner of The <em>Four Way Books\u00a0Intro Prize in Poetry<\/em><br \/>\nselected by Chase Twichell<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from <em>Eye of the Blackbird<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The perfect day is like pain, years later, pain without the pain.<\/p>\n<p>An old woman looks back on her childhood<\/p>\n<p>and sees only gashes of light. She sees the stretched bags of milk<\/p>\n<p>she never gave her children.<\/p>\n<p>She sees fear warping and bending the bodies of everyone she loved.<\/p>\n<p>She sees herself grown strange to herself, not crazed but shorn,<\/p>\n<p>the nails torn, her crucifixion merely boring,<\/p>\n<p>her tall children, arrows of arrows quivering in the world<\/p>\n<p>like struck guitar strings.<\/p>\n<p>On target, she knows, each heart the center of all things, each worm<\/p>\n<p>turning in the apple at the center of the tree<\/p>\n<p>falling with the apple to the ground, leaving its eggs, its silk,<\/p>\n<p>its perfect day.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/mary-ann-mcfadden\/\" 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 64 pages \u2022 12.95 ISBN-10:\u00a01-884800-12-2 Add to Cart [\/column] Eye of the Blackbird Mary Ann McFadden Winner of The Four Way Books\u00a0Intro Prize in Poetry selected by Chase Twichell Excerpt from Eye of the Blackbird The perfect day is like pain, years later, pain without the pain. An old woman looks [&hellip;]<\/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-4306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4306","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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18604,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4306\/revisions\/18604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}