{"id":16914,"date":"2020-12-11T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=16914"},"modified":"2020-12-11T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:31:17","slug":"happy-birthday-jerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Jerry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Today Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, anthologist extraordinaire turns 89!<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Many, many Happy Returns, my friend!<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">&amp; here, as we come to the end of this year of desolation, a few quotes from your book <em>The Mystery of False Attachments<\/em>:<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eager to break thru language<br \/>\n&amp; touch life<br \/>\nI crack my head against<br \/>\na mirror<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">In the way words<br \/>\nrhyme<br \/>\nor fail to<br \/>\nI found my truth<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The smell of mackerel<br \/>\nwas the greatest poem<br \/>\nAmerica<br \/>\nwas promises<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">I learn to mimic birds caught in the brambles<br \/>\nI have a stark vocabulary<br \/>\nletting my heart keep time<br \/>\nmy throat in rapture<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">It doesn&#8217;t matter if the rhyme<br \/>\nis slant or straight<br \/>\nI feel it on my tongue<br \/>\nmy eyes see through it<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Read me and instructions will be clear:<br \/>\nI fight the final revolution<br \/>\nPeace draws nigh<br \/>\nThe mark of teeth on flesh signals our end&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">A miracle of darkness hides the light<br \/>\nitself a miracle<br \/>\nin which infinities escape us<br \/>\n&amp; we plunge on in hot pursuit<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, anthologist extraordinaire turns 89! Many, many Happy Returns, my friend! &amp; here, as we come to the end of this year of desolation, a few quotes from your book&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914","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=16914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16919,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions\/16919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}