{"id":2839,"date":"2020-01-21T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2020-01-21T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:16:45","slug":"when-i-walk-upon-the-earth-by-jacqueline-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"When I Walk Upon the Earth by Jacqueline Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2840\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?attachment_id=2840\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/when-i-walk-upon-the-earth.jpg?fit=333%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"333,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"when I walk upon the earth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/when-i-walk-upon-the-earth.jpg?fit=333%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"  wp-image-2840 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/when-i-walk-upon-the-earth.jpg?resize=250%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"when I walk upon the earth\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">A rich and ruminative collection\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">In her exquisite, electrifying debut, a collection of eleven poems, Belle studies tiny, significant moments of life through her sense of acute observation, suggesting that to celebrate life, one must appreciate the smallest of moments. Belle lyrically define elusiveness of sadness as she writes \u201cSometimes Profound\u2026\/ other times, \/ it just \/lingers.\u201d \u201cHis Soulmate\u201d is a taut exploration of loneliness. The mood is dark in \u201cMy Tea Cup,\u201d but she easily moves to optimism in \u201cHope,\u201d in which she contemplates what it means to keep one\u2019s eyes open to possibilities. The hauntingly beautiful \u201cWhen I Walk Upon the Earth,\u201d the final poem in the collection, closes the book with a meditation on nostalgia: \u201cWhen I walk upon the earth, \/I leave traces, \/I leave traces of my being.\u201d Sublime and uplifting, the collection beautifully integrates life themes with a personal vision, establishing an immediate relationship to readers. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">When I Walk Upon the Earth <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">by Jacqueline Belle<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-I-Walk-Upon-Earth\/dp\/1712636065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">Pub date November 28, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">ISBN 978-1712636060<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Calibri;\">Price $5.99 (USD) Paperback, $9.49 MP3<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A rich and ruminative collection\u2026 In her exquisite, electrifying debut, a collection of eleven poems, Belle studies tiny, significant moments of life through her sense of acute observation, suggesting that to celebrate life, one must appreciate the smallest of moments. Belle lyrically define elusiveness of sadness as she writes \u201cSometimes Profound\u2026\/ other times, \/ it just \/lingers.\u201d \u201cHis Soulmate\u201d is a taut exploration of loneliness. The mood is dark in \u201cMy Tea Cup,\u201d but [&hellip;]<\/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,"_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":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: When I Walk Upon the Earth by Jacqueline Belle #SelfPub #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #jacquelinebelle #wheniwalkupontheearth #poetry","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":[56739],"tags":[91,460,7215,3328,178,610903656,422,531468,1473,1008073,856121],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-JN","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}