{"id":6224,"date":"2020-06-10T18:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2020-06-10T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:52:31","slug":"for-all-my-tricksters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=6224","title":{"rendered":"For All My Tricksters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"6225\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?attachment_id=6225\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?fit=2029%2C2646\" data-orig-size=\"2029,2646\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1591786707&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0921 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?fit=230%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?fit=604%2C788\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6225 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?resize=230%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?resize=230%2C300 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1002 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?resize=785%2C1024 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?w=2029 2029w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_0921-1.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a long time coming but a new collection of verse, <em>Skookum Raven,<\/em>\u00a0will be published by Ekstasis Editions in the fall, pandemic be damned. &#8220;There are some rough and wild birds around Howe Sound &#8212; West Coast avians like the sharp-shinned hawk, the northern harrier, and the whiskey-jack. Heather Haley, an accomplished mapper of human migration, pair-bonding and predation, takes these feathered frenemies as her starting point in this assured third collection, <em>Skookum Raven<\/em>. Like her foremothers and contemporaries Gwendolyn MacEwen, Susan Musgrave and Karen Solie, Haley writes sophisticated free lyrics of a witchy feminist kind &#8212; but adds some proletarian ferocity with her bus-station grandpas and sketches of iffy guys like Ed the Fence. These are astute, austere poems which sometimes take flight into optimistic beauty &#8212; this book is &#8216;pockmarked with luck.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming but a new collection of verse, Skookum Raven,\u00a0will be published by Ekstasis Editions in the fall, pandemic be damned. &#8220;There are some rough and wild birds around Howe Sound &#8212; West Coast avians like the sharp-shinned hawk, the northern harrier, and the whiskey-jack. Heather Haley, an accomplished mapper of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}