{"id":934,"date":"2011-06-16T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=934"},"modified":"2011-06-16T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:03:11","slug":"our-latest-review-from-portland-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/06\/our-latest-review-from-portland-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Our latest review &#8212; from Portland Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s out latest review. \u00a0It is from the <em><a title=\"Portland Book Review 1(2): June-August 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/issuu.com\/portlandbookreview\/docs\/pbr_june2011\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Book Review<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solace in So Many Words<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Edited by Ellen Wade Beals<\/p>\n<p>Weighed Words LLC, $20, 228 pages<\/p>\n<p>How do you define solace? How do you find it? Author Ellen Beals sought answers to these questions and put a call out to writers for fiction, poetry, and essays.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a moving anthology, edited by Beals, titled <em>Solace <\/em><em>in <\/em><em>So <\/em><em>Many <\/em><em>Words.<\/em> Everyone experiences loss, whether of a family member, pet, or a greater loss (9\/11, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina). Before reading this book my definition of solace was narrow &#8211; compassion, comfort, kindness. I now realize it is so much more. Solace is love, hope, honesty, ritual, humor, and connection. Susan Spaeth Cherry, in her poem <em>Predictabilities,<\/em> finds comfort in the expected parts of the day that mean life moves on and continues after loss. Ellen Bass\u2019 poem <em>Jack <\/em><em>Gottlieb\u2019s <\/em><em>In <\/em><em>Love<\/em> describes an 88 year old\u2019s second chance at love: \u201cLife, that desperate addict, has mugged and robbed him in the street, and then she appears&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a world filled with uncertainty and change, the need for solace will always exist. Give yourself a chance to gain new perspective from the words of 52 talented poets and writers. You\u2019ll be thankful you did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Book Review<\/em>, 1(2):15, June-August 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s out latest review. \u00a0It is from the Portland Book Review. Solace in So Many Words Edited by Ellen Wade Beals Weighed Words LLC, $20, 228 pages How do you define solace? How do you find it? Author Ellen Beals sought answers to these questions and put a call out to writers for fiction, poetry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,200,92,12,333,13,332,20,7,16,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-blood-honey-review","9":"tag-ellen-bass","10":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","11":"tag-kathryn-franklin","12":"tag-poetry","13":"tag-portland-book-review","14":"tag-publication","15":"tag-solace","16":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","17":"tag-susan-spaeth-cherry","18":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}