{"id":1632,"date":"2017-07-21T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:43:47","slug":"new-book-of-poems-keeping-the-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/2017\/07\/21\/new-book-of-poems-keeping-the-x\/","title":{"rendered":"New book of poems: Keeping the X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1634\" style=\"border: 6px solid #fff799;\" src=\"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KeepingTheXcoverimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KeepingTheXcoverimage.jpg 534w, https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/KeepingTheXcoverimage-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce a new book published by Pyriform Press!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Keeping the X<\/em> is a collection of poems that Laura-Marie Taylor and Ellen Redbird wrote and exchanged as winter gifts from 2009 to 2017. The poems are based on thematic prompts they offered each other. Tracking the exchange through time, this book offers a window into the playful and tender friendship between two poets.<\/p>\n<p>From \u201csong\u201d by Laura-Marie Taylor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For everything I bring in,<br \/>\nsomething\u2019s got to go out.<br \/>\nLoose ends tie themselves,<br \/>\npretend maps direct me<br \/>\nto plastic treasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From \u201cDistance in Metaphor\u201d by Ellen Redbird:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I see you coming,<br \/>\nI want you to crash into me.<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m all lit up like a<br \/>\nmedical building<br \/>\nnear an airport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*****<br \/>\nOver 50 pages of poetry and drawings<\/p>\n<p>Pyriform Press Catalog: <a href=\"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/pyriform\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.pyriformpress.com\/pyriform\/catalog<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to announce a new book published by Pyriform Press! Keeping the X is a collection of poems that Laura-Marie Taylor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyriform-press","category-redbird-literary-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}