{"id":1451,"date":"2012-08-07T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-24\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:25:19","slug":"carnival","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 25px\"><a style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;padding: 10px 15px 10px 20px;background-color: white;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;border: 3px double #377bb5;letter-spacing: 4px\" href=\"http:\/\/ideaexchange.uakron.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&amp;context=uapress_publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ A SAMPLE<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As I read these poems, I feel as though I\u2019m bailing out of a German fairy tale with a chute that might or might not open. I don\u2019t care, though. Jason Bredle\u2019s night sky is as beautiful as it is scary\u2014I\u2019m happy to fall through it forever.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014David Kirby<\/strong>, author of <em>Talking about Movies with Jesus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Strange, prickly, absurd, hilarious, revelatory, somehow lonely, somehow lovely, Jason Bredle\u2019s <em>Carnival<\/em> is the tour guide you\u2019re not sure you should trust in the foreign city. But you should. Trust me. I am a medical doctor and I know. Each poem takes you down a series of blind alleys\u2014seemingly flat sentences, often odd, amusing, compellingly disjointed\u2014and while you\u2019re not quite sure where you\u2019re going, you end up on a promontory overlooking the city from a vantage point that, if you weren\u2019t here, you\u2019d swear was impossible. But you are here. So enjoy the view. It\u2019s spectacular. Don\u2019t forget to tip your guide. Dramamine is recommended if you\u2019re susceptible to motion sickness or vertigo.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Ander Monson<\/strong>, author of <em>The Available World<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jason Bredle\u2019s poems approach the world like a haunted cat approaches a glacier, curious and itchy with strangeness. In <em>Carnival<\/em>, he skates paratactically between states of being: levity, heart-holes, licks of darkness, lovesickness and werewolfishness. Bredle\u2019s gift as a poet is to traverse and re-traverse one looking glass in ten different moods. When he goes through it, we are taken.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Melissa Broder<\/strong>, author of <em>Meat Heart<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<p>Jason Bredle is the author of\u00a0<i>The Book of Evil\u00a0<\/i>(Dream Horse Press, 2011),\u00a0<i>Smiles of the Unstoppable\u00a0<\/i>(Magic Helicopter Press, 2011),\u00a0<i>Class Project<\/i>\u00a0(Publishing Genius Press, 2010),\u00a0<i>Pain Fantasy<\/i>\u00a0(Red Morning Press, 2007),\u00a0<i>Standing in Line for the Beast<\/i>\u00a0(New Issues, 2007) and\u00a0<i>A Twelve Step Guide<\/i>\u00a0(New Michigan Press, 2004). He lives in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>by Jason Bredle<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 85<\/p>\n<p>Size: 6 x 9<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2331,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[83887],"product_tag":[211,98407],"class_list":{"0":"post-1451","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-akron-series-in-poetry","7":"product_tag-poetry","8":"product_tag-prose-poems","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}