{"id":1871,"date":"2010-04-15T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-130\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:20:13","slug":"requiem-for-the-orchard","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/requiem-for-the-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for the Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ideaexchange.uakron.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&amp;context=uapress_publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ A SAMPLE<\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Winner of the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place \u201cwhere the Ferris Wheel\/ was the tallest thing in the valley,\u201d where a boy would learn \u201cto fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken\u2019s neck\/ with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.\u201d Looking back, the poet wrestles with the meaning of labor in the apple orchards and \u201cthe filthy dollars we\u2019d wad into our pockets,\u201d or the rites of passage that included sinking a knife into the flank of a dead chestnut horse. In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties\u2014or because of them\u2014there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway \u201clike opening a heavy book, \/ letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.\u201d In line after line, poem after poem, there is an immersion in the realm of the senses. The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images: a ten-gallon hat on his head in the second grade is \u201can upside down chandelier;\u201d carnival workers \u201csnarl into the darkness on their borrowed Harleys.\u201d In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it.<\/i><br \/>\n<b>\u2014Mart\u00edn Espada<\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>The Slowdown-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slowdownshow.org\/episode\/2022\/12\/16\/encore-575-how-i-learned-bliss?fbclid=IwAR2ZtX4LD-BVibLuP-q-zN-vLb3OjAtH0TMMAwEQHTmNtu4evzsdlk4dTg8\"> https:\/\/www.slowdownshow.org\/episode\/2022\/12\/16\/encore-575-how-i-learned-bliss?fbclid=IwAR2ZtX4LD-BVibLuP-q-zN-vLb3OjAtH0TMMAwEQHTmNtu4evzsdlk4dTg8<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<h4>Oliver de la Paz<\/h4>\n<p>Oliver de la Paz is the author of four books of poetry:\u00a0<i>Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>Post Subject: A Fable<\/i>. He is the co-editor of\u00a0<i>A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems\u00a0<\/i>and the co-chair of Kundiman.org&#8217;s advisory board. He teaches creative writing in the MFA program at Western Washington University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>by Oliver de la Paz<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 88; Size: 6&#8243; x 9&#8243;<br \/>\nSeries: Akron Series in Poetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2407,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[98295,83887],"product_tag":[97247,211,86653],"class_list":{"0":"post-1871","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-akron-poetry-prize-winners","7":"product_cat-akron-series-in-poetry","8":"product_tag-akron-poetry-prize-winner","9":"product_tag-poetry","10":"product_tag-university-of-akron-press","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1871","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\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}