{"id":6491,"date":"2014-09-04T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=6491"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:45:43","slug":"blood-sparrows-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/blood-sparrows-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 84 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-49-9<\/p>\n

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Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows<\/em> is the winner\u00a0of the\u00a02015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry.<\/p>\n

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows<\/em><\/h1>\n

Eugenia Leigh<\/h2>\n

\u201cEveryone warns us off the rocks. \/ But what will keep us from the river?\u201d Leigh asks in her debut collection, which pieces together a kind of mythology in which the surreal and celestial coexist with the realities of childhood abuse as an adult speaker grapples with its lasting emotional trauma. Rooted in a place of deep faith and bottomless compassion, Leigh\u2019s speaker struggles to remember, and to remind us all, \u201cthat to worship is to survive is to be \/ wholly human.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Sex Education,”from Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Folded into the carpet, eyes closed, I huddle\nnext to my small sisters--the baby\ncurled in the middle. My parents shuffle\n\nin the couch bed beside us, and I wake. I peek.\nI absorb the wet sounds of one mouth\nguzzling another's laughter--and without\n\nhealth class pamphlets, without Eve's Adam\nand the fruit still rich on his chin, I learn<\/pre>\n
the music of bodies smacking together. I learn the word yes<\/em>. And how yes<\/em>— when whispered over and over–seems to free other meanings–secret meanings I never heard them speak in daylight.<\/div>\n
Read an Interview with Eugenia Leigh for National Book Critics Circle<\/a><\/p>\n
Watch a Special Video from the Author<\/a><\/p>\n
Watch the Book Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n
About the Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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