{"id":760,"date":"2016-09-12T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:37:05","slug":"chapbook-review-candy-in-our-brains-by-anne-barngrover-and-avni-vyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/chapbook-review-candy-in-our-brains-by-anne-barngrover-and-avni-vyas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapbook Review: Candy in Our Brains by Anne Barngrover and Avni Vyas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Candy in Our Brains<\/em> by Anne Barngrover and Avni Vyas. Missoula: CutBank Books, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Barngrover and Avni Vyas recently collaborated to co-author <em>Candy in Our Brains<\/em>, a humorous and raw take on life and relationships told through a collection of poems. Full of unlikely combinations, and using a series of poems following \u201cthe heroine,\u201d Barngrover and Vyas take the reader through the struggles of love. In the poem titled, \u201cIt\u2019s My Party and I\u2019ll Implode If I Want To\u201d the authors pair interesting combinations such as, \u201cYou show up with a cake and moths fly out when I slice it\u201d with the gritty thread of thread of dissatisfaction, \u201cFor your birthday: \/ heavy petting and a cake with your name in purple, gouged as if by my nails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barngrover and Vyas pursue turmoil in nature in \u201cThe Heroine Shamwows Her Way Through A Hurricane\u201d where \u201cThe fissures in our youth show up in our faces\u2026tiny mushrooms breaking out in a rash: this \/ could be the tumor in my happiness swelling. This is my joy split wide open.\u201d In \u201cFossils,\u201d the language of forest and animal combine: \u201cWe were together, a cawing \/ battalion\u201d and later, \u201cHow could we \/ have foreseen how much to camouflage in bruise and how much to coddle?\u201d A collection that is unified by startling and vivid language, the turmoil of our relationships seeping through metaphor and everyday reality, <em>Candy in Our Brains <\/em>makes for a powerful collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Teri Dederer, Mid-American Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candy in Our Brains by Anne Barngrover and Avni Vyas. Missoula: CutBank Books, 2014. Anne Barngrover and Avni Vyas recently&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}