{"id":103044,"date":"2019-04-29T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103044"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:45:27","slug":"author-rachael-ikins-premiers-new-book-at-canastota-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103044","title":{"rendered":"Author Rachael Ikins premiers new book at Canastota Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1373.jpg?resize=397%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"103045\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=103045\" class=\"wp-image-103045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1373.jpg?w=397&amp;ssl=1 397w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1373.jpg?resize=93%2C150&amp;ssl=1 93w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1373.jpg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"103046\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=103046\" class=\"wp-image-103046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_3179.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_3179.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, author Rachael Ikins will\nread from her newly released book, \u201cEating the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEating the Sun\u201d is a May-December love affair between a 20-something\npatient and her surgeon. The book quickly blossoms sensuously into a marriage\nof shared passions. In this cross-genre collection, Ikins cultivates multiple\ngardens and harvests delicate, yearning verse, recipes for fruits and\nvegetables sun-coaxed from the earth and luminous stories of her star-crossed\nunion with Phillip, 30 years her senior and the love of her life. We learn of\nthe patches of soil they till, the meals they prepare and follow their\nrelationship throughout their seasons of love. Embracing joy and heartache,\ndespair and delight, &#8220;Eating the Sun&#8221; is ripe and intoxicating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years, Ikins was a member of the Afternoon Writer\u2019s\nGroup at the Canastota Public Library. Ikins is a graduate of Syracuse\nUniversity and winner of the 2018 Independent Book Award for poetry for her\ncollection&nbsp;Just Two Girls. She is a multiple prize-winning poet, novelist\nand artist having written seven chapbooks, a full-length poetry collection and\na novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ikins artwork has hung from Cooperstown to the NYS Fair and\nin galleries from Albany to Syracuse and points between. Her favorite subject\nis the faces and eyes of animals. Ikins lives in a small house with her animal\nfamily surrounded by nature and an enormous vegetable garden, the fruits of\nwhich she says sustain her through winter. Besides drawing and writing, she enjoys\nhiking with her dogs, biking on the lake, mushroom hunting and cooking. She is\nnever without a book in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEating the Sun\u201d is Ikins newest book. It is published by\nClare Songbirds Publishing House in Auburn. Ikins will have books available for\npurchase and autographing at the Canastota Library book reading event. The presentation\nwill take place in the Children\u2019s Area on the second floor of the Canastota\nPublic Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2019, author Rachael Ikins will read from her newly released book, \u201cEating the Sun.\u201d \u201cEating the Sun\u201d is a May-December love affair between a 20-something patient and her surgeon. The book quickly blossoms sensuously into a marriage of shared passions. 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