{"id":184,"date":"2009-04-07T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/jennifer-firestone-holiday\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T21:30:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:30:01","slug":"jennifer-firestone-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/jennifer-firestone-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Firestone, from Holiday<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cloud’s outline
\ndefines itself<\/p>\n

A kiss is a ghost
\nis a branch
\nis raking<\/p>\n

Eyes closed
\nout come more stories<\/p>\n

The idea is to love wholly
\na punctured tube bleeds
\nred, yellow, green
\n[smear]<\/p>\n

Ancient intellectualizing<\/p>\n

Abstracts
\ndepend on my life<\/p>\n

Ink scrawls a message
\nLet love be animals, weeds<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Holiday<\/i><\/a> is Firestone’s fourth collection; Shearman Books has prepared a PDF sampler of the opening poems<\/a>. Other Firestone poems online include “Sun Stream<\/a>” (from The Cortland Review<\/i>), Purposeful<\/a>” (from Moria<\/i>), and an excerpt from from Flashes<\/i><\/a> (from Alice Blue<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Firestone is also the co-editor of Letters to Poets<\/i> which, as she explained to HOW2<\/i><\/a>, was inspired by Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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“[Dana Teen Lomax and I] were curious about this book’s easy appeal and particularly the omission from the book of the letters of the young writer, Franz Xaver Kappus. We hadn’t heard people speak about this omission and it was difficult for us not to see it as part of the problems embedded within a “mentoring” relationship. Perhaps Kappus’ letters weren’t all that compelling. Perhaps he didn’t want to see them in print. Whatever the case may be, we wondered what Kappus actually asked Rilke and how much Rilke’s responses about writing and his two cents about love, among other things, spoke to Kappus’ queries.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Firestone exchanged letters with Eileen Myles, while Lomax corresponded with Claire Braz-Valentine; the book contains a dozen other epistolary pairings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cloud’s outline defines itself A kiss is a ghost is a branch is raking Eyes closed out come more stories The idea is to love wholly a punctured tube bleeds red, yellow, green [smear] Ancient intellectualizing Abstracts depend on my life Ink scrawls a message Let love be animals, weeds Holiday is Firestone’s fourth […]<\/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\/184"}],"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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}