{"id":455,"date":"2019-09-18T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/?p=455"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:18:38","slug":"perhaps-a-poem-is-just-the-antidote-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/2019\/09\/18\/perhaps-a-poem-is-just-the-antidote-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps a Poem Is Just the Antidote You Need!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry celebrating the beauty of nature and more by poetess, Jenny Bates!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visitations-Jenny-Bates\/dp\/0578534878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-456 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visitations-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visitations-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Visitations.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your soul is on a quest to balance the myriad minutia of life in the 21st century, then poet Jenny Bates\u2019 third collection,\u00a0<em>Visitations<\/em>, is a must read.\u00a0 Bates\u2019 answers lie in the forest surrounding her home where by night the master vocals of the Barred Owl always call her to a portal of growth. By day, the Red Shouldered Hawk beckons to complete the summons, \u201cObserve.\u201d\u00a0 Whether plant or animal, wild or domesticated, Bates\u2019 communion with all that is not human, leads to a forgotten realm of holistic knowledge.\u00a0 Divided into four sections &#8211; Trust, Serve, Wait, Hope &#8211; seventy-four poems explore the red clay of her Carolina home and the bones it holds (<strong>Be Still, Red Clay<\/strong>\u00a0<em>(eulogy for a homeless dog);\u00a0<\/em>searches for the voices of wild geese and kestrals (<strong>Jabber Walk through Wonder-land\u00a0<\/strong>); and &#8220;mimic compelling anthropoid gestures&#8221; in the title poem,\u00a0<strong>Visitations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Through the pages of this idiomatic, metaphysical collection, a gentle relationship between the mirror selves of naturalism and fantasy charm the unfeigned reader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visitations-Jenny-Bates\/dp\/0578534878\">See Visitations on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry celebrating the beauty of nature and more by poetess, Jenny Bates! If your soul is on a quest to balance the myriad minutia of life in the 21st century, then poet Jenny Bates\u2019 third collection,\u00a0Visitations, is a must read.\u00a0 Bates\u2019 answers lie in the forest surrounding her home where by night the master vocals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[107,109,108],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","tag-jenny-bates","tag-poems","tag-visitations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superversivesf.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}