{"id":11114,"date":"2013-11-25T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11114"},"modified":"2013-11-25T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:29:04","slug":"rd-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/rd-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"RD is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/RDLaterCover-e1384443947149.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11116 lazyload\" alt=\"RDLaterCover\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/RDLaterCover-e1384443947149.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"736\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 490px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 490\/736;\" \/><\/a>On the last day before I left for Europe earlier this month, the mailman brought a gorgeous 869 page book: <strong><em>Robert Duncan \u2014 The Collected Later Poems and Plays<\/em><\/strong>, edited and with an introduction by Peter Quartermain (University of California Press). Could I somehow stash it in my luggage with all the other books I had to lug to Europe & back. Hold it in my hand? Clamp it firmly under my arm while holding a large shoulder bag with same & dragging suitcase with other? Here was what I had clamored for for years \u2014 & I would have to leave it behind, ah, heartbreak!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, heartbreak it was, but now I\u2019m back & I\u2019ll be able to sit down & entrance myself rereading Duncan from <em>The Opening of the Field<\/em> onward. And will do, as soon as next week\u2019s Occitan festival at Poets House (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetshouse.org\/programs-and-events\/readings-and-conversations\/trobadors-symposium-occitan-poetry?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=November2013-3&utm_content=November2013-3+CID_30e8989f724bb8556b0280b084001003&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Trobadors%20A%20Symposium%20on%20Occitan%20Poetry\">here<\/a> & <a href=\"http:\/\/nicolepeyrafitte.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/occitan-trobadors-in-nyc-a-symposium-a-banquet-a-performance\/\">here<\/a>) is over. But meanwhile, you, should you have more time on your hands, can already read the excellent introduction by Peter Quartermain (I did read it immediately) online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520259294\">here<\/a>, while waiting for the copy you will have ordered to arrive. Finally a perfect reason for long, cold & snowy winter days & nights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uploading the image you see above, I noticed when I reduced it to the page size of my blog\u00a0that it\u2019s original size had been 666 by something \u2014 a magick number by chance occurrence in this e-context RD would probably have run with\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day before I left for Europe earlier this month, the mailman brought a gorgeous 869 page book: Robert Duncan \u2014 The Collected Later Poems and Plays, edited and with an introduction&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,91],"tags":[1446,1103],"class_list":["post-11114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","category-poetry","tag-peter-quartermain","tag-robert-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}