{"id":4414,"date":"2013-09-17T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=4414"},"modified":"2022-12-01T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:12:58","slug":"anxious-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/anxious-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxious Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Anxious-Music-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3086\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Anxious-Music-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Anxious Music Cover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Anxious-Music-Cover.jpg 195w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Anxious-Music-Cover-146x225.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 52\u00a0pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-81-8<\/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=9781884800818&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/column]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Anxious Music<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>April Ossmann<\/h2>\n<p>THE POINT<\/p>\n<p>The point being when a star dies<br \/>\nthe light continues for years<br \/>\nyet illuminates nothing here,<br \/>\nnot the cottage edging the lakeshore,<br \/>\nwhich from this distance<br \/>\nis not lit, but marked, by its light;<br \/>\nthe same way the firefly suddenly starring<br \/>\nmy windshield illuminates neither<br \/>\nthe dark highway or splattered window,<br \/>\nbut only its own small deathplace.<br \/>\nI observe how its light<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t vanish or dim immediately,<br \/>\nbut shrinks slowly, as if receding.<br \/>\nMy sadness for the firefly blooms larger and darker<br \/>\nthan I can fathom, drawing the no I\u2019d use<br \/>\nfor human loss, but dwindling with realization<br \/>\nat the cry\u2019s end. The point being<br \/>\nthat the light lives on&#8230;<br \/>\nand that it disappears.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/4419-2\/\" 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 52\u00a0pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-884800-81-8 Add to Cart [\/column] Anxious Music April Ossmann THE POINT The point being when a star dies the light continues for years yet illuminates nothing here, not the cottage edging the lakeshore, which from this distance is not lit, but marked, by its light; the same way [&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-4414","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18684,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4414\/revisions\/18684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}