{"id":37461,"date":"2019-12-29T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=37461"},"modified":"2019-12-29T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T03:14:42","slug":"when-tarnish-stalked-the-dust-of-fabulous-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/12\/when-tarnish-stalked-the-dust-of-fabulous-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;When Tarnish Stalked the Dust of Fabulous Dreams&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Charles Plymell&#8217;s poems are hard-core gems dug out of the earth. Yet they seem effortless to me.  Without the slightest hint of literary elbow grease, they shine like polished jewels.  I should have published more of them back in the day, but at least there was this one.  It&#8217;s as gorgeous now as it was then.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"979\" data-attachment-id=\"37460\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/in-hollywood-plymell-bw-copy-750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,979\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;In Hollywood&amp;#8217; \u00a9 by Charles Plymell (first published in EQ#4, 1968)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750-230x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 1968 by Charles Plymell [from The San Francisco EARTHQUAKE, NO. 4]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Thanks. Seems like it was &#8220;tarnished angels&#8221;, but maybe too many angels anyway.<br> Ginsberg once told me that every printing of HOWL had new errors.<br> Bring back the scribes!! CP<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Plymell&#8217;s poems are hard-core gems dug out of the earth. Yet they seem effortless to me.  Without the slightest hint of literary elbow grease, they shine like polished jewels.  I should have published more of them back in the day, but at least there was this one.  It&#8217;s as gorgeous now as it was then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37460,"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":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37461","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\/12\/IN-HOLLYWOOD-PLYMELL-bw-copy-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9Kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37461","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=37461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37489,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37461\/revisions\/37489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}