{"id":9965,"date":"2014-07-01T01:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T06:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=10315"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T00:05:12","slug":"book-review-spells-new-and-selected-poems-by-annie-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2014\/07\/01\/book-review-spells-new-and-selected-poems-by-annie-finch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Spells: New and Selected Poems by Annie Finch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/finchspells.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10316\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/finchspells-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"finchspells\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spells: New and Selected Poems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>by Annie Finch<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a9 2013 Annie Finch<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ISBN: 978-0-8195-7269-1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>232 pages<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hardcover $30.00 (<\/strong><strong>U.S.<\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although this is not Annie Finch first book of poetry it is my first experience with her work. From the first few poems in this book I was captivated. This book is a collection of poems both new and ones collected over forty years.<\/p>\n<p>The poems have a cadence that reads as speech but with a musical cadence that are experienced with both body and mind. This is not a book to be read quickly. With each poem I read I found myself stopping to absorb the full effect before moving on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Spells has poems that are lyrics, some are chants, some of performance pieces. I was intrigued by those pieces written for more than one voice. Those were the ones I would love to hear read by a group.<\/p>\n<p>There does not appear to be an overall theme. The poems cover topics such as homebirth, butterflies, goddesses, creation story and more.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is a book that can be read and reread gaining something new and wonderful with each reading. It is not a book to be read through quickly but one to be read slowly to enjoy and savor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Spells: New and Selected Poems by Annie Finch \u00a9 2013 Annie Finch ISBN: 978-0-8195-7269-1 232 pages Hardcover $30.00 (U.S.) &nbsp; Although this is not Annie Finch first book of poetry it is my first experience with her work. From the first few poems in this book I was captivated. This book is a collection of poems both new and ones collected over forty years. The poems have a cadence that reads as speech but with a musical cadence that are experienced with both body and mind. This is not a book to be read quickly. With each poem I read I found myself stopping to absorb the full effect before moving on to the next. Spells has poems that are lyrics, some are chants, some of performance pieces. I was intrigued by those pieces written for more than one voice. Those were the ones I would love to hear read by a group. There does not appear to be an overall theme. The poems cover topics such as homebirth, butterflies, goddesses, creation story and more. Overall, this is a book that can be read and reread gaining something new and wonderful with each reading. It is not a book to be read through quickly but one to be read slowly to enjoy and savor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}