{"id":407,"date":"2007-01-05T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=407"},"modified":"2007-01-05T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T02:37:41","slug":"poetry-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Poetry What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

{One more update: Round-up is here<\/a><\/strong>. Thanks, Elaine!} . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

{Update: I don’t know who’s doing the ‘ol round-up today, but it doesn’t matter. I do, however, want to direct readers to Chicken Spaghetti’s Poetry Friday entry, which is here<\/a><\/strong>. She links to “No Nightmares, Please: Why is so much children’s poetry filled with sadism and doom?,” written by Jeff Gordinier at the Poetry Foundation’s site. It’s ever-so funny. Enjoy! And thanks for the link, Susan}<\/em> . . . <\/p>\n

I’ll be honest. Poetry Friday just snuck up on me and slapped me upside the head. The fact that it’s Friday<\/em> just surprised me. What can I say? I’m still in holiday mode, and every day feels like Saturday. <\/p>\n

So even though I admittedly scrounged for this, I still bring it to you with admiration. I read this recently in the introduction to either Liz Rosenberg’s edited anthology of Earth-Shattering Poems<\/a><\/strong> (1998) or 2000’s Light-Gathering Poems<\/a><\/strong> (both published by Henry Holt<\/a><\/strong>). I really should be able to tell you which one, but I didn’t make note. Nevertheless, it stuck with me:<\/p>\n

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And those, my friends, are the words of Emily Dickinson<\/a><\/strong>. Happy Poetry Friday. As for me, I’m off to get coffee and try to settle into the day (which I now accept is Friday). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{One more update: Round-up is here. Thanks, Elaine!} . . . {Update: I don’t know who’s doing the ‘ol round-up today, but it doesn’t matter. I do, however, want to direct readers to Chicken Spaghetti’s Poetry Friday entry, which is here. She links to “No Nightmares, Please: Why is so much children’s poetry filled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","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\/407","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}