{"id":121041,"date":"2017-10-03T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121041"},"modified":"2017-10-03T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:31:22","slug":"book-launch-all-violet-by-rani-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/03\/book-launch-all-violet-by-rani-rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121044\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22181216_10208166005227137_7985383363715452826_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121044\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22181216_10208166005227137_7985383363715452826_o.jpg\" alt=\"Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera (Facebook Photo)\" width=\"526\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22181216_10208166005227137_7985383363715452826_o.jpg 526w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22181216_10208166005227137_7985383363715452826_o-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10208166005227137&amp;set=gm.1338677399564552&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook Photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WHAT:\u00a0Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera<\/p>\n<p>WHERE:\u00a0<strong>Progress Place<\/strong>, 576 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>WHEN:\u00a0October 27, 2017,\u00a0Friday | 6:30pm \u2013 9:30pm<\/p>\n<p>All Violet, the posthumous poetry collection of Rani Rivera, a Toronto social activist on mental health advocacy and harm reduction.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0young woman chronicles the experience of living on the margins, in spaces and places where body and mind are flayed by guilt, disappointments and betrayals. Her poems record the shattering trauma of struggling to survive through periods of doubt, fear, rage and pain, creating a narrative of disconnection, indignation, alienation and emptiness, the extremes of suffering and desperation.<\/p>\n<p>Employing lyrical free verse, Rani Rivera has skillfully employed the short line to pinpoint moments of acute perception.<\/p>\n<p>Unadorned, taut and precise cries of pain, loss and fury draw the reader deeper and deeper inside this in-your-face confrontation with a dark world of foreboding alleviated by flashes of mordant wit and grace under fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fore more information, go to:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1338677012897924\/\">Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT:\u00a0Book Launch: All Violet by Rani Rivera WHERE:\u00a0Progress Place, 576 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario WHEN:\u00a0October 27, 2017,\u00a0Friday | 6:30pm \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-extra","category-events","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}