{"id":5322,"date":"2016-03-08T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","slug":"surfing-for-jesus-by-susanna-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/surfing-for-jesus-by-susanna-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing for Jesus by Susanna Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.left-thumbnail img {display: none; }\n<\/style>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10px\" width=\"760\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"140\">\n\t\t\t<center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zme-caps.amazon.com\/asset\/SSE\/content\/5695002\/THUMBNAIL_IMAGE?versionId=1&#038;awsClient=416214191754%3Auser%2FMainsite&#038;urlMethod=GET&#038;expires=31536000000000&#038;requestId=93f62101-e530-11e5-b6ce-db369d629585&#038;sig=244732244e84e8bef7a18b7e4599288199bc7728a58c39b7812904560cb6b4a7&#038;serial=1\" alt=\"Surfing for Jesus\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/center><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t<em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tList Price:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t$10.95<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"generic_button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5695002\">Purchase from CreateSpace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"generic_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surfing-Jesus-Susanna-Rich\/dp\/1517021154\">Purchase from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field_error\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"field_error\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<h1>Surfing for Jesus&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p>   \t\t<b><\/p>\n<p>               Authored by<br \/>\n               Susanna Rich<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&quot;Surfing for Jesus&quot; is a 3-D IMAX picaresque where J.C. Penney is the tabernacle; Walter Cronkite, a confessor; and drivers express their &quot;Lordy-Lord&quot; perfections by hugging the speed limit (exactly). These poems variously mourn, moon, lampoon, side-step, meditate, bash, tweak, and imagine their way through the thickets of contemporary commerce and religiosity-to find meaning with the Dalai Lama on the basement bowling alley of a defunct Jesuit seminary; with a sand dolphin and mermaid on a New Jersey beach; and with Jesus resurrected as a Laotian drag queen. Ultimately, &quot;Surfing for Jesus&quot; celebrates that the personal lyric is both a vehicle for and the destination of spiritual authenticity.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t  \t\t\t<b>About the author:<\/b><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t      Poet and songwriter, Susanna Rich is an Emmy Award nominee for her poetry and a Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing.  She is founding producer and principal performer of Wild Nights Productions, LLC, with a repertoire that includes ashes, ashes: A Poet Responds to the Holocaust and the poetry musical Shakespeare&#8217;s *itches: The Women Talk Back. Susanna is author of two previous poetry collections: Television Daddy, and The Drive Home. She received the Ekphrasis Prize for Poetry and the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching at Kean University. Visit her at www.wildnightsproductions.com.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t   \n\t\t   \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"data_dictionary\" id=\"book_estore_details\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Publication Date:<\/dt>\n<dd>Aug 15 2015<\/dd>\n<dt>ISBN\/EAN13:<\/dt>\n<dd>1517021154 \/ 9781517021153<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Count:<\/dt>\n<dd>132<\/dd>\n<dt>Binding Type:<\/dt>\n<dd>US Trade Paper<\/dd>\n<dt>Trim Size:<\/dt>\n<dd>5.5&quot; x 8.5&quot;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd>English<\/dd>\n<dt>Color:<\/dt>\n<dd>Black and White<\/dd>\n<dt>Related Categories:<\/dt>\n<dd>Poetry \/ American \/ General<\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Surfing for Jesus&quot; is a 3-D IMAX picaresque where J.C. Penney is the tabernacle; Walter Cronkite, a confessor; and drivers express their &quot;Lordy-Lord&quot; perfections by hugging the speed limit (exactly). These poems variously mourn, moon, lampoon, side-step, meditate, bash, tweak, and imagine their way through the thickets of contemporary commerce and religiosity-to find meaning with the Dalai Lama on the basement bowling alley of a defunct Jesuit seminary; with a sand dolphin and mermaid on a New Jersey beach; and with Jesus resurrected as a Laotian drag queen. Ultimately, &quot;Surfing for Jesus&quot; celebrates that the personal lyric is both a vehicle for and the destination of spiritual authenticity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":5323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blast-press","category-403-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}