{"id":35497,"date":"2019-06-10T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=35497"},"modified":"2019-06-23T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T13:14:31","slug":"alchemical-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/06\/alchemical-poetry.html","title":{"rendered":"Alchemical Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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‘Implicit’ \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
LET US WRITE<\/em><\/strong>

poems easy to read
simple to understand\u2014
not the kind of thing
that Donne or Milton
wrote, nor the Bard\u2019s
still greater brand,
the kind of thing 
we make for children 
who don't know how
to read, for grownups
who forgot or never
learned to understand\u2014
for the dead, perhaps,
to hear the damned.
<\/strong>
JH<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And another way to look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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With a stenciled text \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart
A card from Cold Turkey Press, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LET US WRITE poems easy to read \/ simple to understand\u2014 \/ not the kind of thing \/ that Donne or Milton \/ wrote, nor the Bard\u2019s \/ still greater brand, \/ the kind of thing \/ we make for children \/ who don’t know how \/ to read, for grownups \/ who forgot or never \/ learned to understand\u2014 \/ for the dead, perhaps, \/  to hear the damned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/implicit-copy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35602,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35497\/revisions\/35602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}