{"id":111,"date":"2015-11-07T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2015\/11\/book-review-the-light-you-cannot-touch\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:45","slug":"book-review-the-light-you-cannot-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/book-review-the-light-you-cannot-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review&#8211;The Light You Cannot Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Just ponder on that a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>When my friend, Erin York, asked me to read\/review her book of poetry, I immediately agreed. I&#8217;ve read her writing before and I always been impressed by her unique storytelling and vivid imagination. I am not an avid reader of poetry, but I have always enjoyed it. To be honest, I think poetry is the simplest, yet most profound way to expressions emotions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-kNxvnQgcid0\/Vj5MY3Q7tJI\/AAAAAAAABJo\/rXpMexpRjos\/s1600\/TLYCT.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TLYCT.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Erin York exceeded my expectations in The Light You Cannot Touch.<\/p>\n<p>Her poems were real and tugged at the emotions. I found myself saying wow throughout the whole book.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite poem she saved for last, which is also the title of the book. She speaks about being thirteen, that age between childhood and adulthood, when nothing makes sense anymore.<\/p>\n<p>This is the blurb:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;\">&#8220;THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT TOUCH is raw, wild, surprising, unafraid, and spry with flares of unforgettable brilliance.&#8221; &#8211;Savannah Thorne, executive director of Balkan Press and managing editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. &#8220;Erin York leaves no doubt that she&#8217;s a writer of heart and vitality in these moving poems. She&#8217;s one to watch, one to listen for when you need poetry to take you to places only the heart knows.&#8221; &#8211;Allison Joseph, My Father&#8217;s Kites: Poems and editor-in-chief of Crab Orchard Review &#8220;Erin York takes her reader from innocence to experience, through loss and gain, through the tangled bodies of love in unexpected ways.&#8221; &#8211;Maryfrances Wagner, Red Silk, winner of the Thorpe Menn Book Award and co-editor of the I-70 Review<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Just ponder on that a minute. Wow. When my friend, Erin York, asked me to read\/review her book of poetry, I immediately agreed. I&#8217;ve read her writing before and I always been impressed by her unique storytelling and vivid imagination. I am not an avid reader of poetry, but I have always enjoyed it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}