{"id":12466,"date":"2022-02-20T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2022-02-20T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T18:02:48","slug":"somewhere-you-are-immortal-an-elegy-for-tom-by-don-gutteridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=12466","title":{"rendered":"SOMEWHERE YOU ARE IMMORTAL: An Elegy for Tom by Don Gutteridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hauntingly beautiful\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutteridge delves into the pain and heartbreak of mourning in his strikingly intimate latest, a series of elegiac poems remembering, memorializing, and celebrating his grandson Tom\u2019s life who died tragically at age 35. \u201cTom\u201d highlights the empty space and the immense pain that refuses to go away after the young man\u2019s death: \u201cThere is no bottom to my grief,\/ your passing has left me\/ with half a heart, I cannot\/ bear to think of the pain\/ That must have pierced you at the end.\u201d With crystal clear poise and narrative cohesion, Gutteridge delves into pleasant memories, bonds of love, grief, and a wishful longing: \u201cO Tom! I want to take you\/ by the hand and walk you into\/ the milkweed meadow a stone\u2019s\/ throw from Grandfather\u2019s yard,\/ where puckered pods secrete\/their sun-drenched seed.\u201d The collection not only does honor to Tom\u2019s memory, it also catalogues people\u2019s immense grief and their almost unnerving sense of vulnerability that comes with losing one\u2019s loved one to tragic circumstances. Combining heartbreaking vulnerability and clarity of language, Gutteridge offers a moving portrait of grief and mourning. Anyone who has lost a loved one will be able to connect. If there is beauty in anguish, one may find it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOMEWHERE YOU ARE IMMORTAL: An Elegy for Tom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Don Gutteridge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hauntingly beautiful\u2026 Gutteridge delves into the pain and heartbreak of mourning in his strikingly intimate latest, a series of elegiac poems remembering, memorializing, and celebrating his grandson Tom\u2019s life who died tragically at age 35. \u201cTom\u201d highlights the empty space and the immense pain that refuses to go away after the young man\u2019s death: \u201cThere is no bottom to my grief,\/ your passing has left me\/ with half a heart, I cannot\/ bear to think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":11617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,91,3328,178,1136176,610903656,54306025,422,1473,856121,309],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-review-website","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-3f4","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/no_image_book.jpg?fit=1205%2C1843&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}