{"id":1570,"date":"2025-09-07T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:23:56","slug":"lamentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/lamentations","title":{"rendered":"Lamentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover-210x156.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Lamentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>by Ray Maseman<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Lamentations<\/em>, Ray Maseman presents seventeen collages based on the Old Testament Lamentations of Jeremiah. Responding to and interacting with the King James translation of the text, Maseman uses collage to explore grief as both an individual and collective process. Rather than illustrating the source material, the layers of text, texture, and imagery connect ancient experiences of collective loss to contemporary concerns about climate change, isolation, and dislocation. The 40-page full-color book is now available in the United States at Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ray-maseman-detail-from-an-end-comes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ray-maseman-detail-from-an-end-comes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ray-maseman-detail-from-an-end-comes-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ray-maseman-detail-from-an-end-comes-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ray-maseman-detail-from-an-end-comes-210x165.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">detail from <em>An End Comes<\/em> by Ray Maseman<br>9&#8243;x12&#8243;; collage; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br><em>Lamentations<\/em><br>by Ray Maseman<br>8.5&#8243;x11&#8243;; 40 pages; hardcover<br>ISBN 9798317696146<br>$30 USD<br>Published by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:raymaseman@gmail.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/ilEoF6G\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Maseman<\/a>, Stevensville, Michigan, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase the book <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/lamentations-raymaseman\/1147826887?ean=9798317696146\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ray Maseman<br \/>\nSelf-published, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/lamentations-cover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-pk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}