{"id":139,"date":"2014-03-05T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-03-13T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:19:55","slug":"the-passion-paintings-aileen-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"The Passion Paintings: Aileen Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/passionpaintings2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8\" alt=\"passionpaintings2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/passionpaintings2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/passionpaintings2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/passionpaintings2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 2 0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0222 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0Passion Paintings<\/em>\u00a0gathers \u2013 thus far \u2013 an oeuvre. Here is &#8216;Book Three&#8217;, a full-length collection of new poems by Aileen Kelly; and alongside it is most of the poetry that appeared in her earlier two books.<\/p>\n<p>The energy that made\u00a0<em>Coming Up for Light<\/em>\u00a0a celebrated first book in 1994 \u2013 still so fresh in the first fifty pages here \u2013 emerges as a driving into an intricate poetic.<\/p>\n<p>Aileen Kelly writes lyrics of emotional and intellectual force, and wit. They feel personal but forbid sentimentality. From the start, she has had acid and mourning poems about atrocity. There are also reflections on the intimate arc that plays between the poet\u2019s home in Melbourne and her youth in England. By the time of\u00a0<em>City and Stranger\u00a0<\/em>in 2002, it is evident that the topic is existence. \u2018On the planet\u2019s rim\u2019, our common exposure is equally political and personal \u2013 and yes, physical.<\/p>\n<p>A Kelly motif is a finding of the numinous in the undeniably secular. This is quietly intensified in some of the poems in\u00a0Book Three: both in the stillness and question of dream narrative, and in sharp or affectionate language of physical detail.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Passion Paintings Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/4.-PassionPaintingsSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a section of poems from\u00a0<em>The Passion Paintings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews: The Passion Paintings.\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=263\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>The Passion Paintings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 2 0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0222 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 The\u00a0Passion Paintings\u00a0gathers \u2013 thus far \u2013 an oeuvre. Here is &#8216;Book Three&#8217;, a full-length collection of new poems by Aileen Kelly; and alongside it is most of the poetry that appeared in her earlier two books. The energy that made\u00a0Coming Up [&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":[6,7],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}