{"id":2935,"date":"2013-08-04T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T01:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2013-08-04T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T02:03:36","slug":"stephen-burt-hyperborea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/04\/stephen-burt-hyperborea\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Burt, &#8220;Hyperborea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JwAYADsLaeA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>after Pindar<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Once past the man-high teeth<br \/>\nand the disintegrating ice<br \/>\nthat separate human lands<br \/>\nfrom the gods&#8217; secret territory, what Herakles found<br \/>\nwas nothing on first sight worth even half a breath<br \/>\nto the sort of fortune-tellers and singers who vaunt<br \/>\ncelebrities&#8217; pleasures, who promise new heroes the solace<br \/>\nof willing nymphets and smooth-shouldered boys,<br \/>\nthen give them marble busts and sapphire crowns.<br \/>\nBehind the curtain of snows<br \/>\nlay temperate air and a firepit, and<br \/>\nwhat heroes, after labors, really want:<br \/>\na couple of apple trees; a brook; warm shade where hardwoods stand;<br \/>\na stump for a table; crisp weather, a place to sit down.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hyperborea&#8221; is from Stephen Burt&#8217;s new collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/9781555976446\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Belmont<\/i><\/a>. The book also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/06\/two-poems-by-stephen-burt\" target=\"_blank\">two poems<\/a> that originally ran in <i>The Awl<\/i> (&#8220;Belmont Overture&#8221; and &#8220;Kendall Square in the Rain&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/poem\/2007\/03\/dulles_access_road.html\" target=\"_blank\">a poem from <i>Slate<\/i><\/a> (&#8220;Dulles Access Road&#8221;), and, from <i>Boston Review<\/i>, the poems &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/poetry\/color-theory\" target=\"_blank\">Color Theory<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/poetry\/butterfly-parachute\" target=_blank\">Butterfly with Parachute<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burt appeared at Brooklyn&#8217;s Book Court as part of the 2013 &#8220;Graywolf Poetry Tour,&#8221; and I took the opportunity to interview him for my other website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehandsell.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Handsell with Ron Hogan<\/i><\/a>. I told him I was a fan of Philip Larkin, August Kleinzahler, and Carl Phillips; he came up with some poets I might like to read next. I&#8217;ve been doing this with other writers and indie booksellers lately&#8212;it&#8217;s been a lot of fun! If you&#8217;d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehandsell.com\/ask\/\" target=\"_blank\">tell me some books you like<\/a>, I may be able to line up some recommendations for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after Pindar Once past the man-high teeth and the disintegrating ice that separate human lands from the gods&#8217; secret territory, what Herakles found was nothing on first sight worth even half a breath to the sort of fortune-tellers and singers who vaunt celebrities&#8217; pleasures, who promise new heroes the solace of willing nymphets and smooth-shouldered [&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":[613,614,612,615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935"}],"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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}