{"id":7834,"date":"2015-09-04T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=7834"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:21:29","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Opposite of People<\/em><\/h1>\n

Patrick Ryan Frank<\/h2>\n

The poems in The Opposite of People<\/em> examine the place of television and cinema in our lives, the tangling of psychology and popular media.\u00a0 In these poems, the poet questions how the imagination can be given shape in films and songs, and how those in turn shape our imaginations, for better or worse.\u00a0 How much of ourselves have we taken from the movies? Does the screen reflect our feelings, or do we reflect the screen\u2019s? Within this collection, we see our lives reflected in artistry and artifice: contrived but desperately earnest.<\/p>\n

“Makeover”, from The Opposite of People<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I'm only this, and this is not enough.\nBecause each body is an accident.\nBecause my body is the opposite\n\nof mystery, and yet I cannot solve\nmyself. I will not know until I'm shown.\nBecause I want to step into a life\n\nas a wealthy woman steps into a store.\nBecause the fountain's full of coins already,\nand the escalator doesn't pause its glide\n\nupward into grace. I will be more\nthan what I seem. My heels on the marble floor\nwill sound like every door in hell thrown wide.\n\n[\/column]\n\nAbout the Author<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 80 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-61-1 Add to Cart Watch a Special Video from the Author Read a Review of The Opposite of People in the Rumpus [\/column] [column col=”3\/4″] The Opposite of People Patrick Ryan Frank The poems in The Opposite of People examine the place of television and cinema […]<\/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-7834","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18371,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7834\/revisions\/18371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}