{"id":38,"date":"2014-10-18T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=38"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:58:00","slug":"wreck-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/wreck-me\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>WRECK ME<\/em>, SALLY BALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/wreck-me\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical-align:text-top alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/wreckmelarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Wreck Me is a primer of emotional violence\u2014a primer because, as these unassumingly gorgeous poems know so well, we can only be beginners when we confront our wish to be seized, transported, remade&#8230;.&#8221;We love \/ that ravishment,&#8221; says Sally Ball of what we simultaneously fear and crave, &#8220;we trust it.&#8221; These poems are ravishing.<br \/>\n\u2014James Longenbach<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"AJXDW4TN5UFUL\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! important;\" hidden=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWreck Me is an entrancing collection. From the first line to the last, we are tugged into a sensibility and a world as familiar as our own world, and as strange. Sally Ball leaves no line unelectrified. Each poem feels finely wrought and completely newborn, which is exactly the point of poetry.<br \/>\n\u2014Laura Kasischke<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy <em>Wreck Me<\/em> (2013) online via our secure payment service, Paypal:<br \/>\nISBN: 0981987682<\/strong><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"AJXDW4TN5UFUL\"><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! important;\" hidden=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wreck Me is a primer of emotional violence\u2014a primer because, as these unassumingly gorgeous poems know so well, we can only be beginners when we confront our wish to be seized, transported, remade&#8230;.&#8221;We love \/ that ravishment,&#8221; says Sally Ball of what we simultaneously fear and crave, &#8220;we trust it.&#8221; These poems are ravishing. \u2014James&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-book","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}