{"id":2881,"date":"2013-01-01T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2013-01-04T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T06:24:40","slug":"radical-books-of-2012-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Books of 2012 (1\/7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; padding: 0 8px 8px 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spdbooks.org\/Producte\/9780983026365\/the-oregon-trail-is-the-oregon-trail.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/oregon_trail.png\" alt=\"The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h4>The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail<br \/>\nGregory Sherl<\/h4>\n<p>Mud Lucious Press &middot; 65 pages<\/p>\n<p>Consciousness wobbles between the &#8220;real world&#8221; of Barry Manilow concerts, streetscapes that look like <i>Frogger,<\/i> and private Facebook messages on the one hand and a fabled simulation bleeding beyond the phosphors of the computer-connected CRT television on the other. Amid tender moments featuring the wife, child #1, and child #2, these poems also offer reminders of the political context in which Westward expansion was undertaken. &#8220;<i>The Oregon Trail<\/i> 2 Starring Mel Gibson Directed by Mel Gibson&#8221; notes, for instance, &#8220;We have Manifest Destiny in our cocks.&#8221; This book about the American journey, not the destination, may appear to be a nostalgic romp. (Perhaps the book&#8217;s dedication, &#8220;FOR YOUTH,&#8221; and the theme of adult responsibilities invites such an attitude.) There is no home to ache over, though, in these 39 poems that join intimate imagination to a famous if floppy American document, showing that however personal or national memory flows past, in whatsoever form, you can&#8217;t ford the same river twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail Gregory Sherl Mud Lucious Press &middot; 65 pages Consciousness wobbles between the &#8220;real world&#8221; of Barry Manilow concerts, streetscapes that look like Frogger, and private Facebook messages on the one hand and a fabled simulation bleeding beyond the phosphors of the computer-connected CRT television on the other. Amid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radical Books of 2012 (1\/7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,18,17,11,4,7],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1k","tag-books","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-poetry","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}