{"id":105,"date":"2019-06-07T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:51:27","slug":"the-sacred-heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/contradictions\/the-sacred-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first book, <em>The Sacred Heart<\/em>, about goodness and complexity, was published in November, 2018, by <a href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\">Kelsay Books<\/a>.\u00a0You can find a poem from the book, &#8220;Chaotic Cell,&#8221; at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dmd27.org\/glaser.html\">Consciousness, Literature and the Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t publish a book until I was in my mid-forties. I spent two decades before that writing criticism and teaching poetry, writing and publishing many poems as well. In a metaphor appropriate to the themes of the collection, I would say the genesis of the book was something like the sudden breakthrough emergence of the stalk from a yucca cactus, growing very quickly, spontaneously, rooted in and reaching up away from its earthly source.<\/p>\n<p>I see in this book too the emergence of my mature voice: philosophical, playful, in love with the ordinary. Seeking to unite, or bring close together, the ethical and the aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first book, The Sacred Heart, about goodness and complexity, was published in November, 2018, by Kelsay Books.\u00a0You can find a poem from the book, &#8220;Chaotic Cell,&#8221; at\u00a0Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. I didn&#8217;t publish a book until I was in my mid-forties. I spent two decades before that writing criticism and teaching poetry, writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}