{"id":360,"date":"2007-03-21T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:58:57","slug":"poetry_late_wif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/poetry_late_wif.html","title":{"rendered":"Poetry:  &#8220;Late Wife&#8221; by Claudia Emerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since most books of poetry are so slim, and can sometimes take a few readings to really absorb all the imagery, I read them a few times over a week or so, before I actually consider them &#8220;read.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These poems span the gap between a relationship falling apart\/ending up in divorce, and a new relationship beginning\/moving in together.  They are calm and point blank; the honesty of hindsight.  They are sparse and stripped, as one&#8217;s emotions would be.  Not outwardly exclamatory or emotional, but quite powerful nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since most books of poetry are so slim, and can sometimes take a few readings to really absorb all the imagery, I read them a few times over a week or so, before I actually consider them &#8220;read.&#8221; These poems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/poetry_late_wif.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}