{"id":2765,"date":"2020-01-11T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2020-01-11T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:00:22","slug":"raw-thoughts-a-mindful-fusion-of-literary-and-photographic-art-by-john-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Raw Thoughts: A mindful fusion of literary and photographic art by John Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A radiant collection\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Casey offers in his fine debut a compelling exploration of hope and mindfulness through a beautiful combination of poems and black and white photographic art. The collection is a spiritual voyage, a journey of darkness and despair of a broken heart to liberation and meditation, from there to happiness, and ultimately to love. The collection starts on a dark note (In \u201cSubsistence of Loss,\u201d Casey beautifully gives shape, color, and texture to despair and grief: \u201cThe memories fade\/the details\/The colors, tastes, sounds and moments\/Deliquesce, as air in the vacuum of space\/But the vast attendant nothing\/Fills inexorably with heartache\/A sorrow that endures\u201d), but as the book progresses, the tone becomes uplifting, hopeful with almost an ecstatic response to life\u00a0<\/span>secrecy by the end. Casey\u2019s masterful use of language and Hussey\u2019s stunning black and white photographic images make for an impressive read.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Raw Thoughts: A mindful fusion of literary and photographic art <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

by John Casey (Author), Scott Hussey (Photographer)<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Buy now<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Adelaide Books LLC<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Pub date July 11, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

ISBN 9781951214050<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Price $21.64 Hardcover, $22.22 Paperback, $7.71 Kindle edition<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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  A radiant collection\u2026 Casey offers in his fine debut a compelling exploration of hope and mindfulness through a beautiful combination of poems and black and white photographic art. The collection is a spiritual voyage, a journey of darkness and despair of a broken heart to liberation and meditation, from there to happiness, and ultimately to love. The collection starts on a dark note (In \u201cSubsistence of Loss,\u201d Casey beautifully gives shape, color, and texture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Book review: Raw Thoughts: A mindful fusion of literary and photographic art by John Casey #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #johncasey #rawthoughts #poetry #poetrycollection","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[178,610903656,422,531468,1473,1008073,856121,309,4522],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-spiritual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-IB","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}