{"id":143696,"date":"2021-04-14T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143696"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:40:41","slug":"michelle-recommends-brute-emily-skaja-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143696","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Recommends: Brute &#8211; Emily Skaja (National Poetry Month)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute-233x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute-233x300.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute-797x1024.jpeg 797w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute-1195x1536.jpeg 1195w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute-1593x2048.jpeg 1593w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>&#8220;<em>Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Emily Skaja\u2019s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4730884?locg=11\"><strong><i>Brute<\/i><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention. The speaker of these poems is a sorceress, a bride, a warrior, a lover, both object and agent, ricocheting among ways of knowing and being known. Each incarnation squares itself up against ideas of feminine virtue and sin, strength and vulnerability, love and rage, as it closes in on a hard-won freedom.<\/p>\n<p><i>Brute<\/i>\u00a0is absolutely sure of its capacity to insist not only on the truth of what it says but on the truth of its right to say it. \u201cWhat am I supposed to say: I\u2019m\u00a0<i>free<\/i>?\u201d the first poem asks. The rest of the poems emphatically discover new ways to answer. This is a timely winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and an introduction to an unforgettable voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets Emily Skaja\u2019s debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence.\u00a0Brute\u00a0arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michelle-recommends","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brute.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BnG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143744,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143696\/revisions\/143744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}