{"id":72,"date":"2014-10-01T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:01:36","slug":"3-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/3-14\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>3.14159+<\/em>, LOIS HIRSHKOWITZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical-align:text-top alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/314.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lois Hirshkowitz, who lives in New York City, is a founding editor and trustee of <em>Barrow Street<\/em>, has taught at the Writer\u2019s Voice in New York City, and has worked as a New Jersey Poet-in-the-School and as a Dodge poet. In 1973 she founded an independent day school, Lakewood Prep, which she still \u2018attends.\u2019 She has published three books of poetry: <em>Nurture &amp; Torture<\/em> (San Diego Poets Press, 1992), <em>Marking Her Questions<\/em> (Mellen Poetry Press, 1993), and <em>Pan\u2019s Daughters<\/em> (Chi Chi Press, 1998).<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"MYQJYY24SBGJS\" \/><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--><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s poetry in the very idea of <span style=\"font-family: symbol;\">p<\/span>, the infinite number which shows us constancy of mathematical relationship. If you know the radius, <span style=\"font-family: symbol;\">p<\/span> guarantees the circumference of a circle, and Lois Hirshkowitz guarantees us a remarkable radius of pleasure in these quirky, dream-like poems about the circumference of a life, and how to calculate it. Sounds abstract? It is, but this is a full-bodied abstraction with a sensuous apprehension of the world. Hirshkowitz\u2019s poems are mature work in peak flower, radiant on the landscape of contemporary American letters.<br \/>\n\u2014Molly Peacock<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy <em>3.14159+<\/em> (2004) online via our secure payment service, Paypal:<br \/>\nISBN: 0972830227<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lois Hirshkowitz, who lives in New York City, is a founding editor and trustee of Barrow Street, has taught at the Writer\u2019s Voice in New York City, and has worked as a New Jersey Poet-in-the-School and as a Dodge poet. In 1973 she founded an independent day school, Lakewood Prep, which she still \u2018attends.\u2019 She&#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-72","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\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}