{"id":3851,"date":"2012-08-17T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2012-08-17T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:00:05","slug":"in-pieces-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3851-in-pieces-now-available.html","title":{"rendered":"In Pieces (An E-Book of Poems)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/in-pieces\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3812 alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none;float: right;margin-left: 1em;margin-bottom: 1em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpressmu-122967-351695.cloudwaysapps.com\/robertpeake\/files\/2012\/08\/cover-small-211x300.png\" alt=\"In Pieces by Robert Peake\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2012\/08\/cover-small-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2012\/08\/cover-small.png 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to people on either side of the pond asking where they can read some new work, I have put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/in-pieces\">a little e-book called<\/a> <em>In Pieces<\/em>. The poems all have something to do with the game of chess, but really that&#8217;s just an excuse to take a &#8220;pawn\u2019s-eye view&#8221; of human affairs: war, death, and aging\u2013as well as Sudoku, Elvis impersonators, and nice cups of tea. Several poems come from a long sequence about The Lewis Chessmen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3253-long-poem-magazine-launch-reading.html\">published in <em>Long Poem Magazine<\/em> earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The e-book contains nine poems in all, costs just 99 pennies, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/in-pieces\">available for instant download<\/a>. You can read it as a PDF on a regular computer, or transfer it to an iPad or Kindle. It was fun to put together, and I hope you like it. I may do a follow-up post about the process of creating the e-book, since I learned a lot. It is sort of the opposite end of the spectrum from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/in-situ\">letterpress collaboration<\/a> I did in America.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/in-pieces\">enjoy the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to people on either side of the pond asking where they can read some new work, I have put together a little e-book called In Pieces. The poems all have something to do with the game of chess, but really that&#8217;s just an excuse to take a &#8220;pawn\u2019s-eye view&#8221; of human affairs: war, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3851-in-pieces-now-available.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Pieces (An E-Book of Poems)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,1268,5],"tags":[141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}