{"id":1163,"date":"2013-06-20T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2013-05-29T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T21:12:16","slug":"for-the-comfort-of-automated-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/for-the-comfort-of-automated-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"For the comfort of automated phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1160\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Cover of For the Comfort of Automated Phrases\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture19.png\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/794938855\">Jane Cassady. \u00a0For the Comfort of Automated Phrases.\u00a0Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012. Paperback. 73p. $14.95. 978-1-937420-17-8.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This collection of poems could steal the heart of even the most ardent poetry hater. \u00a0From the first poem, \u201cFor Those About to Plan Weddings, We Salute You,\u201d to the last, \u201cTo Amy and the Rained-Out Science Carnival,\u201d Cassady proclaims her love for a broad and generous array of people, places, things, and events.<\/p>\n<p>There are love poems to whole cities and life events both major and minor. \u00a0Poems of longing and wistful remembrance share the pages with poems about pop culture and board games and are jostled by celebratory shouts for the reader\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>The poet invites the reader along on her road trip through Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Texas. \u00a0She writes poems to strangers, to friends, to the old cell phone that she just can\u2019t part with. \u00a0She casts her net wide and the result is a mix of poems that give the reader a sense of what it\u2019s like to live with open eyes and an open heart.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended for all collections.<br \/>\nReviewer: <strong>Sarah Corvene<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Cassady. \u00a0For the Comfort of Automated Phrases.\u00a0Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012. Paperback. 73p. $14.95. 978-1-937420-17-8.\u00a0 This collection of poems could steal the heart of even the most ardent poetry hater. \u00a0From the first poem, \u201cFor Those About to Plan Weddings, We Salute You,\u201d to the last, \u201cTo Amy and the Rained-Out Science Carnival,\u201d Cassady proclaims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}