{"id":147,"date":"2014-03-05T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:02:36","slug":"letters-to-the-tremulous-hand-elizabeth-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Tremulous Hand: Elizabeth Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/letterstothetremuloushand2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11\" alt=\"letterstothetremuloushand2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/letterstothetremuloushand2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/letterstothetremuloushand2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/letterstothetremuloushand2.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?0977578763&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780977578764<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a076 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Campbell\u2019s poems always seem daimonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free-verse lines, their questings, turns, and landings.<\/p>\n<p>She explores the mind&#8217;s readiness both to misconceive and ti find a solid world. Her poems are full of tangible objects yielding significance, whether the theme is travelling, singing, dreams, or sacred or secular love &#8211; or a recurrent observation of horses: their physical presence, and the veering of their barely graspable consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The ten poems of the title sequence, addressed to a little-known-about medieval scribe, scrupulously view the smallness of the leavings of lives underlying history. These are a remarkable meditation on thinking and solitude.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Letters to the Tremulous Hand Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/7.-LettersfortheTremulousHand.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Letters to the Tremulous Hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews: Letters to the tremulous hand\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=271\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Letters to the Tremulous Hand<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780977578764\u00a0 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a076 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 23.95 Elizabeth Campbell\u2019s poems always seem daimonic, running along an edge of surprise. They are in fact written very slowly, sculpted to a dense inner clarity. It helps that she is a master of the rhythms of free-verse lines, their questings, turns, and landings. She explores the [&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\/147"}],"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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}