{"id":878,"date":"2009-11-03T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-11-03T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T03:43:43","slug":"review-of-i-heard-god-talking-to-me-by-elizabeth-spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Review of I Heard God Talking to Me, by Elizabeth Spires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/i_heard_god_talking_to_me.jpg\" alt=\"i_heard_god_talking_to_me\" title=\"i_heard_god_talking_to_me\" width=\"165\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-879\" \/><em>I Heard God Talking to Me<\/p>\n<p>William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Elizabeth Spires<\/p>\n<p>Frances Foster Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2009.  56 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a book that is as distinctive as its subject.  It&#8217;s a biography of folk sculptor William Edmondson, but the story of his life is told in a series of poems.  The poems are based on photographs taken during his life (He died in 1951.) of his sculptures and of himself and of his yard.<\/p>\n<p>The poems are mostly in the voice of the object in the sculpture.  Like the sculptures, they are quirky and distinctive and amusing.<\/p>\n<p>A few pages of prose at the end give a summary of William Edmondson&#8217;s life and fill in some of the details.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, the photos and poems in this book add up to a compelling portrait of a man who believed he was doing the work of God.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to agree with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374335281\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/i_heard_god_talking_to_me.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/i_heard_god_talking_to_me.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Heard God Talking to Me William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings by Elizabeth Spires Frances Foster Books (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2009. 56 pages. Here&#8217;s a book that is as distinctive as its subject. It&#8217;s a biography of folk sculptor William Edmondson, but the story of his life is told in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}