{"id":8352,"date":"2016-02-09T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=8352"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:18:56","slug":"begins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/begins\/","title":{"rendered":"How the End Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8240 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover-212x318.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/How-the-End-Begins_Cruz-front-cover.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">paper \u2022 74 pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-67-3<\/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=9781935536673&amp;PRESS=fourway\" data-color=\" data-color-hover=\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EL9zHSU3IgM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the Book Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blunderbussmag.com\/topography-of-poetry-how-the-end-begins\/\">Read a piece by Cynthia Cruz on the influences behind\u00a0<em>How the End Begins<\/em>\u00a0for Blunderbuss Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">How the End Begins<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0was named one of the best poetry collections of 2016 by <em>Fourth &amp; Sycamore\u00a0<\/em>and was a finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h1><em>How the End Begins<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Cynthia Cruz<\/h2>\n<p><em>How the End Begins<\/em> is about the world\u2019s seductions, its incessant clamoring for more which is juxtaposed against the invisible world: the quiet, the call of the desert, and the pull to faith. The book chronicles this move toward faith and away from the \u201cdingen\u201d (things or stuff). <em>How the End Begins\u00a0<\/em>is a burning down, a kind of end of the world while, at the same time, a new, triumphant beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Self Portrait: Polaroid,&#8221; from <em>How the End Begins<\/em>:<\/p>\n<pre>Our very own Pharmacopoia blonde\nIn blue powder eye shadow, or\nLuminous nurse of the locked ward,\nThis sweet, licked delirium. Of teeth,\nDirt, and seed. Alone, in my dream\nRoom, listening careful\nFor the second coming.<\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 74%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\"><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/cynthia-cruz-author-page\/\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-color-hover=\"#efefef\" data-bg=\"#d2d2d2\" data-bg-hover=\"#171717\">About the Author<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;] paper \u2022 74 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-67-3 Add to Cart Watch the Book Trailer Read a piece by Cynthia Cruz on the influences behind\u00a0How the End Begins\u00a0for Blunderbuss Magazine. 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