{"id":3570,"date":"2018-05-28T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T23:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/05\/28\/featured-reviews-of-little-wildheart\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:11:50","slug":"featured-reviews-of-little-wildheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/05\/28\/featured-reviews-of-little-wildheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews of &quot;Little Wildheart&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9155 \" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/9781772122336.jpg?w=175\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;In <em>Little Wildhear<\/em>t, Micheline Maylor writes poems that chart the vagaries of love, its cycles of loss and renewal, followed by a realization about the joy and freedom in reinhabiting the self without outside commitment&#8230;. Maylor draws images from an elementary and animal world to reflect the psyche and its spiritual progress. Allusive and elusive, educated and down-to-earth, witty and conversational, these oftentimes rollicking poems are fine-tuned with technical skill and strict formalist measures.&#8221; Gillian Harding-Russell,\u00a0<em>Prairie Fire<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;&#8230; this and other poems are most memorable for how Maylor varies phrases to lure and surprise her reader. If Maylor is playing with the conventions of the lyric sentence, she&#8217;s playing with the conventions of poetry itself in the book&#8217;s formal pieces&#8230; <em>Little Wildheart<\/em> is a complicated book of deceptively simple parts.&#8221;\u00a0Jacob McArthur Mooney,\u00a0<em>Quill &amp; Quire<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Pat Lowther Award<\/b>, Canada<br \/>\nLong-listed<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Raymond Souster Award<\/b>, Canada<br \/>\nLong-listed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Little Wildheart, Micheline Maylor writes poems that chart the vagaries of love, its cycles of loss and renewal, followed by a realization about the joy and freedom in reinhabiting the self without outside commitment&#8230;. Maylor draws images from an elementary and animal world to reflect the psyche and its spiritual progress. Allusive and elusive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}