{"id":691,"date":"2007-04-05T19:43:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T23:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/05\/elaine-equi-objects-japanese-novels\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:46:40","slug":"elaine-equi-objects-japanese-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/05\/elaine-equi-objects-japanese-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Equi, &#8220;The Objects in Japanese Novels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Empty cages outline<br \/>\nthe periphery of a named thing.<br \/>\nTheir emptiness shines<br \/>\nlike lanterns on virgin snow.<br \/>\nA few flakes swirl up,<br \/>\ncaught&#8212;as scenic views<br \/>\nare caught in parts of speech,<br \/>\nwhere wishes and schemes<br \/>\nglow gloomy as a shrine,<br \/>\nand hair is a kind of incense.<br \/>\nHere, even abundance is delicate<br \/>\nwith a slender waist.<br \/>\nAnd sorrow, embarrassment, disgust<br \/>\ncan be aestheticized too<br \/>\nif surrounded by the right things&#8212;<br \/>\na refreshing breeze, a small drum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1566891973\"><i>Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems<\/i><\/a>. Equi will be reading tonight at  Marymount Manhattan College with fellow poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, in a National Poetry Month event sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\">Academy of American Poets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty cages outline the periphery of a named thing. Their emptiness shines like lanterns on virgin snow. A few flakes swirl up, caught&#8212;as scenic views are caught in parts of speech, where wishes and schemes glow gloomy as a shrine, and hair is a kind of incense. Here, even abundance is delicate with a slender [&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\/691"}],"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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}