{"id":1263,"date":"2011-04-13T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T03:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/rose-hunter-statues-illustrious-men\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T03:05:15","slug":"rose-hunter-statues-illustrious-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/rose-hunter-statues-illustrious-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Hunter, “The Statues of Illustrious Men”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These three
\nface the cathedral
\nand are the ones I can see from
\nwhere I’m sitting:
\nMarcelino García Barragán
\n(militar y gobernante<\/i>),
\na leg, a bite of torso,
\na dangling arm;
\nDr. Leonardo Oliva
\n(dr cientifico<\/i>), bisected; and
\nManuel M. Diéguez (general,
\nprecursor, revolucionario<\/i>);
\nsword obscured by the shrubs<\/p>\n

beyond the fence and the inclining
\nlawn; leaves and red flowers
\nover his chest: an abandoned
\npompom.<\/p>\n

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(—at the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres<\/i>, Guadalajara)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To the River<\/i><\/a> is a collection of poems from Rose Hunter<\/a>. It also includes “Out of Detroit on the Greyhound<\/a>” (originally published in Quay<\/i>), “Walking into the Wynn, Las Vegas, and You Are Stitched Into<\/a>” (Referential<\/i>), “He Is No Pinkerton<\/a>” (Juked<\/i>), and “Even<\/a>” (Leaf Press<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Hunter is also the founder of YB Poetry<\/i><\/a>, an online journal that will be publishing its fourth issue this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These three face the cathedral and are the ones I can see from where I’m sitting: Marcelino García Barragán (militar y gobernante), a leg, a bite of torso, a dangling arm; Dr. Leonardo Oliva (dr cientifico), bisected; and Manuel M. Diéguez (general, precursor, revolucionario); sword obscured by the shrubs beyond the fence and the inclining […]<\/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\/1263"}],"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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}