{"id":807,"date":"2019-10-27T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=807"},"modified":"2019-10-27T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:18:46","slug":"book-review-minimize-considered-by-nina-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Minimize Considered by Nina Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minimize-considered.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-808 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minimize-considered-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minimize-considered-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/minimize-considered.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>I devoured this poetry debut the morning after meeting the astute poet. Nina Murray has a gift of seeing beauty and metaphor in the mundane, the things we walk past every day and fail to notice; a chestnut, a cat, a bridge, a sparrow with a flake of bread. Murray\u2019s words and images linger long after they are read. My favorite: <em>the snow on the tall chestnuts in the park \/ appeared blue, as if already more in touch with water \/ than with itself<\/em>. There are so many great lines that I won\u2019t dare repeat them all here. Buy the collection and enjoy them in their natural state.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Nina on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/houndart\/\">Instagram<\/a>, visit her <a href=\"https:\/\/houndart.wordpress.com\/\">website<\/a>, and buy her books on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Minimize-Considered-Nina-Murray\/dp\/163534509X\/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=nina+murray&amp;qid=1572198611&amp;sr=8-6\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-714 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie-300x66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie-768x170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie-676x150.jpg 676w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/support-indie.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I devoured this poetry debut the morning after meeting the astute poet. Nina Murray has a gift of seeing beauty and metaphor in the mundane, the things we walk past every day and fail to notice; a chestnut, a cat, a bridge, a sparrow with a flake of bread. Murray\u2019s words and images linger long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-flash-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Review of Nina Murray&#039;s debut poetry collection\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mike D\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=807\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"rogue rhetoric\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" 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