{"id":7004,"date":"2020-12-27T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2020-12-27T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T20:30:22","slug":"personal-spirit-by-alexandra-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=7004","title":{"rendered":"Personal Spirit by Alexandra Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Expansive and sagacious\u2026 a beautiful collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith beautifully explores love, longing, sadness, hope, and mortality in her debut, a short collection of poetry, pictures, and flash fiction pieces. In the utterly inspiring \u201cThe Wolf Within,\u201d she infuses the emotions as well as objects with palpable life: \u201cThrough the brambles, \/ Through the thorns, \/ Through the nettles, \/ Through the fire, \/ I am running to you.\u201d \u201cThe Lost Love\u201d and \u201cA Prayer\u201d explores the sadness whereas \u201cThe Candle,\u201d and \u201cHypnotic\u201d are stirring and uplifting. It\u2019s time that\u2019s constant and yet varying throughout the collection, and Smith fuses present with past, creating a lingering nostalgia for the current moment and for the future. She beautifully creates poignant emotional textures in her flash fiction pieces (recalling old love, she writes: \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to look back on you. \/ Some days that is all I can do, \/ I am glad you were mine for a little while.\u201d). Profound and beautiful, this memorably sweet collection inspires readers to cherish all of their memories and emotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Alexandra Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date October 3, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-8669309770<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $7.76 (USD) paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Expansive and sagacious\u2026 a beautiful collection Smith beautifully explores love, longing, sadness, hope, and mortality in her debut, a short collection of poetry, pictures, and flash fiction pieces. In the utterly inspiring \u201cThe Wolf Within,\u201d she infuses the emotions as well as objects with palpable life: \u201cThrough the brambles, \/ Through the thorns, \/ Through the nettles, \/ Through the fire, \/ I am running to you.\u201d \u201cThe Lost Love\u201d and \u201cA Prayer\u201d explores the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":7005,"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_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":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":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,7215,3328,178,8053601,1136176,62857929,422,531468,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-author","tag-indie-books","tag-indiebooks","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1OY","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/personal-spirit.jpg?fit=354%2C499&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","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=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}