{"id":13785,"date":"2022-07-18T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2022-07-18T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:39:38","slug":"a-fine-tuned-heart-new-poems-by-don-gutteridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=13785","title":{"rendered":"A FINE-TUNED HEART: New Poems by Don Gutteridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A collection of stunning breadth and intimacy\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wide-eyed awareness runs throughout, uplifting life’s everyday moments into something weighty and transcendent in the introspective latest from Gutteridge. In \u201cSYMPHONIC,\u201d Gutteridge trains his eye on the retreating shoreline of a life: \u201cI sit at ease in my rocker,\/ 84 years young, SYM\/ still able to breathe\/ in my old bones, listening\/ to Peter, Paul and Mary\/ sing the songs of the long-\/ago Sixties.\u201d The poems are varied in their subjects, exploring old memories, small moments of joy life offer on a daily basis, boyhood lust and passion, friendships and family bonds, grief, longing, love among others: \u201cThe aging poet does not\/ pose behind a podium\/ to project some bardic bravado,\/ he is seated, rather, in his walker,\/ awkwardly, as if he can feel\/ his bones brooding in their sockets,\/ and, wincing at \u201cprince,\u201d Gutteridge writes. In \u201cCHALK AND CHEESE,\u201d the death of a bully\u2019s father gives the young Gutteridge a new perspective about luck. In the elegant and reflective, \u201cTHE TUG OF TOUCH,\u201d written in the memory of his deceased grandson Tom, Gutteridge uses form to capture the transitory nature of life. The mischievous and arresting \u201cRIBALD\u201d is an ode to boyhood lust and friendships. \u201cENUNCIATION\u201d and \u201cJig\u201d reflect on the simplicity of long-gone yesterday. Written in memoriam for the six-year-old Effie Free, \u201cBLITHE SPIRIT\u201d delves into the little girl\u2019s vigor and liveliness. Gutteridge draws on his memories of old times as he braids past and present in \u201cREMEMBERING WHEN\u201d and ONE MORE TIME.\u201d  Over the course of the collection, Gutteridge moves from his childhood in Point Edward to his present days, reflecting on both the happiness and pain life offers. Old friends, acquaintances, siblings, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, all of them make an appearance. A reflection on life, death, and memories that is at once intimate and sweeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A FINE-TUNED HEART<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Poems <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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A collection of stunning breadth and intimacy\u2026 A wide-eyed awareness runs throughout, uplifting life’s everyday moments into something weighty and transcendent in the introspective latest from Gutteridge. In \u201cSYMPHONIC,\u201d Gutteridge trains his eye on the retreating shoreline of a life: \u201cI sit at ease in my rocker,\/ 84 years young, SYM\/ still able to breathe\/ in my old bones, listening\/ to Peter, Paul and Mary\/ sing the songs of the long-\/ago Sixties.\u201d The poems are varied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":13571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[1],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,91,3328,178,1136176,610903656,54306025,62857929,422,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-indiebooks","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bad-fortune.jpg?fit=1205%2C1843&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-3Al","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","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=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13790,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/13790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}