{"id":9072,"date":"2016-06-17T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=9072"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:03:19","slug":"violent-blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/violent-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[column col=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<a href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9030 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-scaled-212x318.jpg 212w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Violent-Blues_Willard-cover-scaled.jpg 1707w\" 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 58 pages \u2022 15.95<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-75-8<\/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=9781935536758&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>Violent Blues<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Bruce Willard<\/h2>\n<p><em>Violent Blues<\/em> is a blues-harp album of words, a soundtrack of loss, introspection and renewal\u2013 one man\u2019s search for intimacy and enduring music. Its poems are rooted in the natural world and tethered by concrete experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Revision,&#8221; from <em>Violent Blues<\/em>:<\/p>\n<pre>Mid-February revealed in red: correction,\ncardinal, blister, rose, store-front\nheart, snow sunset, scarlet\nlingerie on white skin.\n\nLone bonsai, indoors, ever-\ngreen edged in rust,\nits limbs overreaching\nits given space. Time\n\nfor pruning. Here,\nclose to the branches,\nthe quick, turned\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"width: 74%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;\">joinery and excess.<\/p>\n<p>How seasoned these bloodless cuts,<br \/>\nthese short and blessed days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"stunning-text-button gdl-button-hover\" style=\"color: #efefef; background-color: #171717;\" href=\"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/brucewillard\/\" 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 58 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-75-8 Add to Cart [\/column] Violent Blues Bruce Willard Violent Blues is a blues-harp album of words, a soundtrack of loss, introspection and renewal\u2013 one man\u2019s search for intimacy and enduring music. Its poems are rooted in the natural world and tethered by concrete experience. &#8220;Revision,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18864,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9072\/revisions\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}