{"id":7838,"date":"2015-09-04T13:20:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=7838"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:33:30","slug":"boys-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/boys-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys of My Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"Boys<\/a><\/p>\n

paper \u2022 76 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-60-4<\/p>\n

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Boys of My Youth<\/em><\/h1>\n

Rebecca Okrent<\/h2>\n

In these poems Rebecca Okrent rescues significance from the ordinary accumulation of days and losses that mark the passage of time, recapturing for herself and for her reader the reverence felt in childhood when everything held meaning. The poems emerge from moments when nature or experience insist: \u201cI have something to tell you.\u201d Okrent rides the tide of mourning to arrive on solid ground, and celebrates the stillness that comes with slack tide: \u201cAll is becalmed in a suspension \/ of time before the tide\u2019s turning. \/ The world\u2019s abyssal intake of breath, \/ then lamentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Danse Macabre”, from Boys of My Youth<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Daylight is ferocious,\ntears at intention\nas a lioness her kill,\nso by nightfall resolve\nis a carcass, again\nyou wreath remains\nin smoke and ashes, bleach\nthe bones in bourbon\nsmut your face in entrails\nand pronounce the layers of dark\nyou fall through\nbeautiful.\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n\nAbout the Author<\/a>\n\n\u00a0\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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