{"id":145,"date":"2014-03-05T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-03-13T02:15:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:15:56","slug":"man-wolf-man-l-k-holt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Man Wolf Man: L K Holt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manwolfman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12\" alt=\"manwolfman\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manwolfman-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manwolfman-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manwolfman.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN:\u00a0<a title=\"libx-autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au\/search\/i?0977578771&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780977578771<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a078 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95<\/p>\n<p>L K Holt\u2019s poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns found images of this world into blazon.<\/p>\n<p>She explores some dark matters \u2013 with homages to Goya, through the eyes of his mistress, and to Donne. She has a particular touch with the sensory strangeness in states of extremity; yet the giftedness of life breaks into vision in Holt\u2019s poetry with lightness.<\/p>\n<p>There is unblinking unamazement at violence; and a lively vein of the erotic. Both have a part in the carved meditations of two monologues at the book\u2019s centre, \u2018Unfinished Confession\u2019 and \u2018Long Sonnets of Leocadia\u2019. Their scope of knowledge and understanding, with flourishing irony in the one and a just-smiling humanity in the other, seems effortlessly summoned.<\/p>\n<p><i>Man Wolf Man<\/i>\u00a0was awarded the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier\u2019s Literary Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Man Wolf MAn\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/8.-ManWolfManSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Man Wolf Man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Man wolf Man reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=267\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0Man Wolf Man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780977578771\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a078 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95 L K Holt\u2019s poems are stories, and eruptions from the midst of story. They are also pure lyric. A feeling for the formality of language guides her lines through a music of rhyme, half-rhyme (and quarter-rhyme) and turns found images of this world into blazon. She [&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\/145"}],"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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}