{"id":782,"date":"2016-09-22T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:30:41","slug":"chapbook-review-my-fault-by-leora-fridman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/chapbook-review-my-fault-by-leora-fridman\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapbook Review: My Fault by Leora Fridman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My Fault <\/em>by Leora Fridman. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016. 86 pages. $ 16.00, paper.<\/p>\n<p>The ambiguity of Leora Fridman\u2019s title, <em>My Fault<\/em>,\u00a0is compelling. Perhaps this is\u00a0a collection of confessions of guilt, intended to clear the speaker\u2019s conscious? Fridman does not offer a direct answer to this question, but rather leaves it up to the reader to interpret the meaning behind her words. While her prose poems are very clear in language and sentence structure, the message is often hidden and requires a second or third read. Sentences that seem to be nonsensical at first, will eventually reveal their meaning, like in \u201cFactions\u201d, where she writes:<\/p>\n<p>I have not found<\/p>\n<p>any skin yet but I will<\/p>\n<p>be there soon, just as<\/p>\n<p>soon as I can fight off<\/p>\n<p>the beavers peeling fibers<\/p>\n<p>from my scalp, trying<\/p>\n<p>to open my mind,<\/p>\n<p>making me feel far<\/p>\n<p>more awake than<\/p>\n<p>I ever intended to find<\/p>\n<p>myself, laughing at<\/p>\n<p>how much human I am<\/p>\n<p><em>My Fault<\/em> does not focus on one particular topic, but on a plethora of personal thoughts of the speaker, evolving around everything and anything that is important to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Tanja Vierrether, <em>MAR<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Fault by Leora Fridman. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016. 86 pages. $ 16.00, paper. The ambiguity&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapbook-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}