{"id":1250,"date":"2011-04-07T00:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/07\/susan-parr-untitled\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T00:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T04:49:21","slug":"susan-parr-untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/07\/susan-parr-untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Parr, &#8220;Untitled&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1249\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/susan-parr.jpg\" alt=\"susan-parr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No skill to sorting rice.<br \/>\nThe ways are multiform&#8212;<br \/>\neven the urge to decide on one pulls the grain.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s advice:<br \/>\npour wherever the scoop leads your arm,<br \/>\npronouncing the name of some<\/p>\n<p>one-syllable thing, like &#8220;sky,&#8221;<br \/>\nmaking a tiny screen<br \/>\nfor the free-falling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0807134481\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Pacific Shooter<\/i><\/a>, the debut collection from Susan Parr, was the 2009 winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series prize. Poems from this collection include &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thediagram.com\/7_5\/parr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Formal Manners<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;This Is Not a Lemon&#8221; (published in <i>DIAGRAM<\/i>), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/01\/09\/seattle_poetry_chain_7_susan\" target=\"_blank\">Even Football<\/a>&#8221; (reprinted in <i>The Stranger<\/i>) and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.incendiarylit.com\/2009\/04\/26\/for-your-enjoyment-and-your-consideration-poem-in-the-shape-of-a-poem-and-brandoid-roundteen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poem in the Shape of a Poem<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Brandoid Roundteen&#8221; (discussed at <i>Incendiary Lit<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No skill to sorting rice. The ways are multiform&#8212; even the urge to decide on one pulls the grain. So here&#8217;s advice: pour wherever the scoop leads your arm, pronouncing the name of some one-syllable thing, like &#8220;sky,&#8221; making a tiny screen for the free-falling. Pacific Shooter, the debut collection from Susan Parr, was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}