{"id":1058,"date":"2014-12-02T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:26:20","slug":"cousin-dee-wildness-rushing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Cousin dee – Wildness Rushing In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, I met cousin dee – we are related through her attachment to my mother’s third (?) cousin, Dave; their grandmothers were sisters. Something like that.<\/p>\n

Both dee and Dave are writers, and I met them as they each came to Toronto to read their work. dee has recently published Wildness Rushing In<\/a>, a collection of poems, which she shared as part of a recent reading tour.<\/p>\n

\"dee<\/a>
dee Hobsbawn-Smith reading her poetry at the Rower\u2019s Pub reading series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My favourite poem of the collection is At 15<\/em>, which narrates her fifteen-year-old self and the surly angst and rage accompanying her.<\/p>\n

But what I enjoyed most about dee was her generosity of spirit. She warmly welcomed me – and my four-year-old son – to the event, helped us get settled, and ensured we were comfortable. In fact, so comfortable were we that my little one fell asleep at the pub bar, allowing me to listen without interruption, babe in arms, to the poets in attendance.<\/p>\n

Do pick up a copy of dee’s delicious collection; linguistic delight for the senses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, I met cousin dee – we are related through her attachment to my mother’s third (?) cousin, Dave; their grandmothers were sisters. Something like that. Both dee and Dave are writers, and I met them as they each<\/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":[530,531,383,385,85,532],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dee","tag-hobsbawn-smith","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-reading","tag-wildness-rushing-in","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}