{"id":2727,"date":"2015-10-23T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=2727"},"modified":"2020-03-19T01:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:41:46","slug":"catechism-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=2727","title":{"rendered":"CATECHISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tmh,<\/p>\n

ANTJE KATCHER
\nPoetry<\/strong>
\nPublished: 2015
\nPages: 81
\nISBN 978-1-4951-6174-2<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Textual analysis and biblical references become their own form of artistic worship, sourced from a wordless beyond to remind us that raptures and virgins, prayers and exploding plastics really do have something in common.”– Lucas Hunt, East Hampton Star<\/em><\/p>\n

Striking images and a clever play on words appear in several of the poems, particularly in the second section. In \u201cSybil,\u201d for instance, \u201cShe draws hollyhock from bleached bone\u201d held no meaning for me but is too beautiful to dismiss. The play on words is used to excellent effect in \u201cDaedalus in Sardinia,\u201d a mythic story of blind faith. Continually asked, \u201cBut …. what of his son?\u201d Daedalus simply speaks of the sun, \u201ca difficult god \/ jealous and unforgiving \/ of any free flight and would grant you nothing \/ but the separate ecstasy \/ of his own \/ blind insights\u201d Similarly, \u201cDown at the Dinghy,\u201d a poem of yearning and aloneness, cleverly revolves around the sound of the words bourn, borne and born.<\/p>\n

So much in all the poems in this collection is worth citing: the subjects, the language, the tone. Whether melancholy or playful, never did I hear a false note.–Rosalie Calabrese, The American Book Review<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

according to Grimm
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Greetings,
\nsaid the Unicorn to the Tailor,
\ngreetings on this fine day<\/p>\n

But, said the Tailor,
\ndon\u2019t you know there is no
\nsuch thing as a unicorn<\/p>\n

Oh I am, she cried,
\ndon\u2019t you see that I am<\/p>\n

Fair as the morning air
\nBright as the morning light
\nSoft as the mourning dove
\nFleeting as morning love…<\/p>\n

The Tailor alas
\nsaw no future in poetry
\nso he chopped off her ivory rod
\nrode her home for his hobby horse
\nand married his ugly
\nbut very rich princess<\/p>\n

Unicorns since that day
\ntravel in disguise<\/p>\n

from Catechism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANTJE KATCHER Poetry Published: 2015 Pages: 81 ISBN 978-1-4951-6174-2 “Textual analysis and biblical references become their own form of artistic worship, sourced from a wordless beyond to remind us that raptures and virgins, prayers and exploding plastics really do have something in common.”– Lucas Hunt, East Hampton Star Striking images and a clever play on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2727\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}