{"id":135,"date":"2014-03-05T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:00:26","slug":"cube-root-of-book-paul-magee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Cube Root of Book: Paul Magee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cuberootofbook2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6\" alt=\"cuberootofbook2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cuberootofbook2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cuberootofbook2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cuberootofbook2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 1 2 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a074 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 21.9<\/p>\n<p>Read this sequence through from page one, or start at any point and let its circles widen, or perhaps go to the lovely, light-syllabled final lyric and discover interesting ways back. The poems themselves breach back and forth to form a questing autobiography of precipitate adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>They breathe into this, for perspective, the author\u2019s fascination with some of the world\u2019s outer and inner mazes: art, media, brain dysfunction, political dysfunction, Russia. Each chapter includes Paul Magee\u2019s translation from one of the Latin poets.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s symmetries and its title portend no arcane numerology. But they do make a point about necessity. The poems well up from roots; they are caught and crafted, as anyone will know who speaks them.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cube Root of Book<\/i>\u00a0was shortlisted for the Innovation Award at the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cube Root of Book Selection of Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2.-CubeRootofBookSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Cube Root of Book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cube Root of Book: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=258\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>: Cube Root of Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 1 2 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a074 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 21.9 Read this sequence through from page one, or start at any point and let its circles widen, or perhaps go to the lovely, light-syllabled final lyric and discover interesting ways back. The poems themselves breach back and forth to form a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}