{"id":36863,"date":"2019-12-02T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=36863"},"modified":"2019-12-02T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:25:52","slug":"foolish-enough-to-have-been-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/12\/foolish-enough-to-have-been-a-poet.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Foolish Enough to Have Been a Poet’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In Heptonstall churchyard, <\/em>
West Yorkshire, U.K. <\/em>
<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Asa, translucent Jew,
your eyebrows arched
so high as to hold 
nothing excluded that might want in,

it's proper to come your way
by deflection. Exquisite poet . . . 

\u2014 Roy Fisher<\/a><\/em>
<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Asa Benveniste<\/a> at Sylvia Plath Hughes’s gravestone, nearby.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asa, translucent Jew,
\nyour eyebrows arched
\nso high as to hold
\nnothing excluded that might want in,<\/p>\n
it’s proper to come your way
\nby deflection. Exquisite poet . . . <\/p>\n
\u2014 Roy Fisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36862,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","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\/11\/asa-beneveniste-HEADSTONE-365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9Az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863","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=36863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36924,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions\/36924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}