{"id":5603,"date":"2021-03-21T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5603"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:48:25","slug":"easy-does-it","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/easy-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<em>Easy Does It<\/em>,\u00a0Jennifer\u00a0Moore\u2019s second full-length collection, the speaker brings the reader on an exploration of multiple worlds: the social, the domestic, and the pastoral, considering the difficult questions and problems of the self\u2014of memory, history, grief, and desire. The poems move from buzzing, bewildering environments where \u201chide and seek becomes\u00a0Save yourself\u201d and \u201cnothing ever \/ does it easy\u201d in pursuit of clarity, beauty, and stillness. With colloquial humor and curiosity, the speaker investigates her subjects in tones that range from the wry to the resigned to the powerful. Through linguistic echo and metaphorical transformation, the familiar is made strange and the strange feels like home.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Jennifer Moore\u00a0was born and raised in Seattle. She is the author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/the-veronica-maneuver\/\">The Veronica Maneuver<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of Akron Press, 2015) and the chapbook\u00a0<em>Smaller Ghosts<\/em>\u00a0(Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>Crazyhorse, Bennington Review, Interim, The Cincinnati Review<\/em>, and elsewhere, and her work has been recognized by residencies with and fellowships from the Jentel Arts Foundation, Artsmith, and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. An associate professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, she lives in Bowling Green, Ohio.<\/p>\n<h3>Advance Praise for\u00a0<em>Easy Does It<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Jennifer Moore is a searcher for the unfound and a master of the domestic\u2019s duplicity as her cityscapes collide with the pastoral: \u201cthe new view is the old view, revised to include a little white noise.\u201d A rebel at heart, she is constantly escaping\u2014like Dickinson\u2014the inescapable house: \u201cI made my house a house of rain; \/ at night, a house of snow. \/\/ I filled the bedrooms with waves. \/ I emptied the kitchen of fog.\u201d Easy Does It is at once reeling with truth and paradox, \u2014and at her best, Moore is a master of prosody, emotion, and startling imagery: \u201cGrief against the \/ mourning for the \/ sorrow at the \/ hammer\u201d \u2014Mark Irwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"product_title entry-title\">Jennifer Moore<\/h4>\n<div class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\">\n<p>Size: 6 x 9<\/p>\n<p>Pages: 90<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5703,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[83887],"product_tag":[97659,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-5603","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-akron-series-in-poetry","7":"product_tag-affordable-learning-initiative","8":"product_tag-poetry","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\/5603","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\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}