{"id":1358,"date":"2008-07-18T00:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2008-07-18T05:10:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T11:10:59","slug":"poetry-friday-kay-ryan-obviously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Kay Ryan, obviously."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kay-ryan.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Kay Ryan' \/>Hey, ya&#8217;ll. We&#8217;ve got a new Poet Laureate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/poetry\/laureate_current.html\"><strong>Kay Ryan<\/strong><\/a>. I suppose a lot of people will be posting her stuff today, so I won&#8217;t do a big thing about her. I&#8217;ll just say that I haven&#8217;t read that much of her stuff yet, but what I&#8217;ve read so far I generally like. Some of it I really love. She&#8217;s got a sharp sort of wit, a coolly detached voice, and a deceptive brevity that seems more straightforward than it is. Here&#8217;s an example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=172273\"><strong>&#8220;Full Measure:&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will get your full measure.<br \/>\nBut, as when asking fairies for favors,<br \/>\nthere is a trick: it comes in a block.<br \/>\nAnd of course one block is not<br \/>\nlike another. Some respond to water,<br \/>\ngiving everything wet a little flavor.<br \/>\nSome succumb to heat like butter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=172273\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. This poem is especially resonant with me right now. I&#8217;m one of those people who has a strong creative impulse, but so far hasn&#8217;t really found an expressive medium in which I feel confident. I&#8217;ve tried quite a few: dance, theatre, writing, photography, guitar&#8230; but I didn&#8217;t excel at any of them. So I feel like my block is still mostly untouched, just sitting there, waiting for me to figure out how to get at it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably something I just wouldn&#8217;t expect. Like, d\u00e9coupage.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Congrats to Kay Ryan: thanks for sharing your full measure with us.<\/p>\n<p>The inimitable <a href=\"http:\/\/kellyrfineman.livejournal.com\/\"><strong>Kelly Fineman<\/strong><\/a> is handling this week&#8217;s round-up, bless her. Go see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, ya&#8217;ll. We&#8217;ve got a new Poet Laureate: Kay Ryan. I suppose a lot of people will be posting her stuff today, so I won&#8217;t do a big thing about her. I&#8217;ll just say that I haven&#8217;t read that much of her stuff yet, but what I&#8217;ve read so far I generally like. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}