{"id":42199,"date":"2015-08-11T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42199"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:13:29","slug":"page-as-bone-ink-as-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42199","title":{"rendered":"page as bone \u2013 ink as blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/talonbooks.com\/books\/page-as-bone-ink-as-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">page as bone \u2013 ink as blood<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talonbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talonbooks<\/a><br \/>\n2015<br \/>\n96 pages<br \/>\n6 W x 9 H inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 13: 9780889229235<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joninakirton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talonbooks.com\/books\/page-as-bone-ink-as-blood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/talonbooks.com\/images\/9780889229235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton\u2019s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night \u2013 a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who ventures into the double-world existence as a mixed-race woman. In her struggle for footing in this in-between space, she moves from the disco days of trance dance to contemplations in her dream kitchen as a mother and wife.<\/p>\n<p>With this collection, Kirton adds her voice to the call for the kind of fierce honesty referred to by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muriel_Rukeyser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muriel Rukeyser<\/a> when she asked, <em>What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.<\/em> Kirton tells her truth with gentleness and patience, splitting the world open one line at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through J\u00f3n\u00edna Kirton\u2019s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night \u2013 a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who ventures into the double-world existence as a mixed-race woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,1617],"tags":[4838,20659],"class_list":["post-42199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-jonina-kirton","tag-talonbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54347,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42199\/revisions\/54347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}