{"id":8300,"date":"2021-03-19T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:19:37","slug":"welcome-home-little-poltergeist-by-vincent-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=8300","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home Little Poltergeist by Vincent Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Evocative and beautifully haunting\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hollow uses speculative poetry to transcend a heartbroken lover\u2019s grief in his haunting debut, a collection of short poems. Set against a haunted house backdrop, the collection comprises a sequence of poems, containing fragments from the life of a grieving widower. With his partner dead, the unnamed protagonist struggles beneath the weight of prolonged grief and longing. The book begins with the hauntingly beautiful \u201cFilms About Ghosts\u201d: \u201cIt\u2019s so hard\/ watching you disappear\/ like a reel of film\/ being gradually exposed\/ until each frame is only white fog\/ erasing all your exquisite details\u201d and moves further to enact the protagonist\u2019s struggles to find a medium to help him conjure his lover: \u201care you in here? \/ please answer me\/ you\u2019re getting fainter\/ is that your voice\/ coming from downstairs? \/ speak up\/ I can\u2019t hear you.\u201d Visceral, disturbing, and deeply evocative, these poems detail devastating accounts of grief: \u201cI know where you are\/ Laying in the sigh of stars\/ in the back of an abandoned car\/ humming the song of the sea\/ waiting for me\/ to meet in our reverie,\u201d, and end on a morbid and yet buoyant note: \u201csleep well\/ tired heart\/ the deep spell\/ and cries heard afar.\u201d The accompanied illustrations evoke both the complex multiplicity of the protagonist\u2019s emotions and the ominous setting. The collection adeptly gives voice to pain and despair of a man struggling with the death of his partner. But what makes this collection truly revelatory is its bold envisioning of a haunted house and a love that goes beyond the realm of living: \u201cburnt\/ bricks and bones\/ burnt faces in our loft\/ ashes over my eyes\/ and lips\/ let me taste your cinders\/ and remind me how it burns\/ to love you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome Home Little Poltergeist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vincent Hollow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writers Republic LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Pub date December 25, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1637281246<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $2.21 (USD) Kindle edition, $13.99 Paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evocative and beautifully haunting\u2026 Hollow uses speculative poetry to transcend a heartbroken lover\u2019s grief in his haunting debut, a collection of short poems. Set against a haunted house backdrop, the collection comprises a sequence of poems, containing fragments from the life of a grieving widower. With his partner dead, the unnamed protagonist struggles beneath the weight of prolonged grief and longing. The book begins with the hauntingly beautiful \u201cFilms About Ghosts\u201d: \u201cIt\u2019s so hard\/ watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":8301,"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":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":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,7215,3328,178,8053601,1136176,422,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-indie-author","tag-indie-books","tag-poetry","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-29S","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/welcome-home-little-poltergeist.jpg?fit=348%2C499&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","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=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}