{"id":1837,"date":"2011-04-15T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=24"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:37:35","slug":"the-jane-poems-by-ronald-moran","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/the-jane-poems-by-ronald-moran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jane Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">In an early poem in this\u00a0collection, <em>The Jane Poems<\/em>, Ronald Moran recounts how, as a lovestruck young man hoping to catch his chosen girl&#8217;s eye, he once spent an afternoon &#8220;mowing the same \/ patch of lawn over and over&#8221;\u2014shirtless, just in case she should happen by. This awkward &#8220;offering of my unrehearsed \/ goods in early summer&#8221; was the prelude to a successful marriage that endured for half a century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Moran&#8217;s wife, Jane, passed away in 2009, and <em>The Jane Poems<\/em> captures, in a poetry that is sometimes wry, sometimes deeply poignant, their difficult final years together and Moran&#8217;s struggle to cope with her death. He addresses illness, memory, death, and mourning in ways both frank and moving.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":179,"template":"","subject":[34],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[66],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-1837","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-general-interest","browse_by_imprints-clemson-university-press-independent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1837\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}