{"id":5905,"date":"2014-02-20T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=5905"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:34:59","slug":"compass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Without-Compass-front-Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5848\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Without-Compass-front-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Without Compass front Cover\" width=\"2100\" height=\"3150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 72 pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-38-3<\/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=9781935536383&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>Without Compass<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Benjamin Miller<\/h2>\n<p>In this debut collection of lyric poems, self-doubt becomes sacrificial offering.\u00a0Through recurring dreams of grandeur, self-sabotage, and defeat, Benjamin Miller\u2019s collection <em>Without <\/em><em>Compass<\/em> explores the desert margins between faith and emptiness, between \u201cdesire and its counterfeits.\u201d\u00a0Carved down, elliptical, the poems seek \u201cthe perfect flaw\u201d with which to \u201ccruel you to thought.\u201d From\u00a0behind the \u201cveil and doubt\u201d of the lyric voice, they lead us in pursuit of the possibility of belief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Desert,&#8221; from <em>Without Compass<\/em>:<\/p>\n<pre>What have I been doing? Nothing, nothing.\nLook: the blue couch scraped the floorboards\nWhere we pushed it flush. The empty wall.\nThe parquet's little screaming. \n\nIn a dream all afternoon I dredged the ocean,\nPulling razor clams and wedding rings.\nOne-eyed crabs clung to my fingers,\nAnd I named them. This is wait. This, delay.\n\nI found the perfect flaw and brought it home.\nLike falling kites, the night came in a rush.<\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/benjamin-miller\/\" 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 72 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-38-3 Add to Cart [\/column] Without Compass Benjamin Miller In this debut collection of lyric poems, self-doubt becomes sacrificial offering.\u00a0Through recurring dreams of grandeur, self-sabotage, and defeat, Benjamin Miller\u2019s collection Without Compass explores the desert margins between faith and emptiness, between \u201cdesire and its counterfeits.\u201d\u00a0Carved down, [&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-5905","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5905","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=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18624,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5905\/revisions\/18624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}