{"id":2369,"date":"2018-10-29T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?page_id=2369"},"modified":"2018-11-01T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T23:02:19","slug":"sia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/sia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where there was body there now is\u2014        Specimen is dextral, fusiform, many-whorled, feels very good nestled in the palm of the chief inquisitor        When in doubt remember home\u2019s a heft one shuttles across sand and sea        What is a shell but a matrix of calcium compound        What is a shell but that which is in between life and death        In school she is quiet, average, not someone the teachers would peg as a truant        Today, the ocean glints        Her schoolbag bulges with samples; still, there\u2019s always the understanding we begin with a catalogue of ourselves is there not        Later at home she\u2019s yelled at for the neglect of her studies       In her room, eyes still red, she holds her conch to her ear
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Poet's Statement: \"My Sister, the Conchologist\" reimagines Mary Anning's search for fossils. I wrote this poem in gratitude to my family who has encouraged my curiosity about the natural world and love of science from the beginning.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

Bio:\u00a0Andy Sia is a Bruneian of Chinese descent. His poems have been published in Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Colorado Review,<\/em> and others. Currently, he lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is a John and Ren\u00e9e Grisham Fellow and an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4X2 an online poetry journal Photo “Silfra, Iceland” by Melissa Hotchkiss My Sister, the Conchologist by Andy Sia Where there was body there now is\u2014        Specimen is dextral, fusiform, many-whorled, feels very good nestled in the palm of the chief inquisitor        When in doubt remember home\u2019s a heft one shuttles across sand and sea        What is a shell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2369","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2369\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}