{"id":45,"date":"2008-09-04T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/04\/james-agee-two-songs\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:49:43","slug":"james-agee-two-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/04\/james-agee-two-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"James Agee, &#8220;Two Songs on the Economy of Abundance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image44\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/james-agee-poems.jpg\" alt=\"james-agee-poems.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Temperance Note: and Weather Prophecy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Watch well The Poor in this late hour<br \/>\nBefore the wretched wonder stop:<br \/>\nWho march along a thundershower<br \/>\nAnd never touch a drop.<\/p>\n<p><i>Red Sea<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How long this way: that everywhere<br \/>\nWe make our march the water stands<br \/>\nApart and all our wine is air<br \/>\nAnd all our ease the emptied sands?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1598530321\"><i>James Agee: Selected Poems<\/i><\/a>, the latest volume in the Library of America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpoetsproject.org\">American Poets Project<\/a>, which reminds us that for all the other types of writing Agee practiced&#8212;from fiction to journalism to film criticism&#8212;he considered himself a poet first.<\/p>\n<p>Other Agee poems online include &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardsquarelibrary.org\/poets\/agee_james.php\">Permit Me Voyage<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/williamshakespeareexperience.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/poems-by-james-agee-and-thomas-gray.html\">Sunday: Outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperance Note: and Weather Prophecy Watch well The Poor in this late hour Before the wretched wonder stop: Who march along a thundershower And never touch a drop. Red Sea How long this way: that everywhere We make our march the water stands Apart and all our wine is air And all our ease 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\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}