{"id":281,"date":"2011-11-06T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2011-11-06T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T03:41:50","slug":"tinfish-retro-series-writeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Tinfish Retro Series Writeup"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Honolulu Weekly<\/a>, Matthew DeKneef<\/a> has a writeup of Tinfish Press’s Retro Series of chapbooks, Small Press, Big Fish<\/a>, including special mention of Xi Chuan’s Yours Truly & Other Poems<\/em><\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

From kitchen sink approaches to poems with more intentional goals, part of the fun is reveling in those novel gems. Personal favorites include Revilla\u2019s \u201cPull Without Push,\u201d Aitken\u2019s \u201cThe Day Danno Died (In Memory of James MacArthur)\u201d and [Xi] Chuan\u2019s \u201cYours Truly.\u201d Though most exciting about the Retro Series … is feeling a sense that each has a charged responsibility to their words. That they matter. Or maybe that\u2019s just how you feel as reader. Either way, you\u2019ve been hooked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Honolulu Weekly, Matthew DeKneef has a writeup of Tinfish Press’s Retro Series of chapbooks, Small Press, Big Fish, including special mention of Xi Chuan’s Yours Truly & Other Poems. Here’s an excerpt: From kitchen sink approaches to poems … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,12,7],"tags":[15,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":359,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=359","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":0},"title":"Tinfish Retro Series Writeup","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On November 6 I posted about Matthew DeKneef's writeup of Tinfish Press\u2019s Retro Series of chapbooks in the Honolulu Weekly, including special mention of Xi Chuan\u2019s Yours Truly & Other Poems. 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