{"id":4722,"date":"2020-10-27T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/?post_type=product&#038;p=4722"},"modified":"2020-11-18T22:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:13:04","slug":"on-fire-and-roses","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/product\/on-fire-and-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"On Fire and Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISBN<\/strong> <span lang=\"zxx\"><span lang=\"en\"><b>978-0-998458076<br \/>\n108 pages, Trade Paperback<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #0263d3;\">By Alex Johnston<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en\">For me, writing poetry is like solving, and then creating a puzzle. I see or experience things I know I want to write about, we all do. Figuring out a way to put those experiences on paper, so as to make them readable, is how one solves the puzzle. Avoiding straightforwardness and balancing on a knife edge, between enigmatic and readability, is how one creates the puzzle. I spent nearly three years revisiting, rewriting and re-getting pissed off at, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en\"><i>The October Horse<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en\">. I reference this poem so much because it is also almost entirely autobiographical (as is most of the book). I trudged through problems with addictions, like so many other 20 somethings, and I was maybe one or two bad decisions away from writing this book in prison (lucky me). The poem is so important to me because even when I was in the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en\"><i>total animal soup of time<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"en\"> (Ginsberg again!), I knew I wanted to write about that chapter of my life. \u2014 <em>Alex Johnston<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Read a sampling of poems from this book <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/poetraindog\/docs\/firerosessampler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read an interview with Alex Johnston <a href=\"http:\/\/auburnpub.com\/lifestyles\/passion-for-poetry-auburn-man-s-childhood-past-struggles-inspire\/article_0ce3bc11-85e4-5ec8-9af6-a0ab0b643930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4723,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[292],"product_tag":[443,298],"class_list":["post-4722","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","product_tag-alex-johnston","product_tag-lummox-press","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}