{"id":13478,"date":"2017-08-02T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2021-11-12T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:56:04","slug":"email-exchange-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/email-exchange-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Email exchange questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wesley McNair and Robert Brinkerhoff, the cover illustrator of <em>The Unfastening<\/em>, conducted a brief but revealing email exchange about how to convey the book\u2019s meaning through art. Along the way, Brinkerhoff submitted a short series of alternative possibilities from which McNair chose the final version. All the while, both tried to make the cover match the book&#8217;s intentions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The email exchange follows. Here are some questions to keep in mind as you read it.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Why does McNair reject the alternative covers Brinkerhoff proposes and choose the one that now appears on the book?<\/li>\n<li>What images does the final cover borrow from the book\u2019s poems?<\/li>\n<li>How does the email exchange about the title poem contribute to the final cover?<\/li>\n<li>What does the composition of the final illustration \u2013 the leaning figure in the foreground, the barn that leans in the opposite direction, and the straight telephone poles at the center \u2013 contribute to the book\u2019s meaning?<\/li>\n<li>Discuss the meaning of light in the background, and the possibility that the snowflakes in the foreground are transformed into dawn stars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13478\" data-postid=\"13478\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13478 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley McNair and Robert Brinkerhoff, the cover illustrator of The Unfastening, conducted a brief but revealing email exchange about how to convey the book\u2019s meaning through art. Along the way, Brinkerhoff submitted a short series of alternative possibilities from which McNair chose the final version. All the while, both tried to make the cover match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77692],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14059,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions\/14059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}