{"id":32228,"date":"2017-08-05T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32228"},"modified":"2017-08-07T04:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T08:32:45","slug":"2-hart-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2-hart-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"2: Hart Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shell-trash and gull-clutter<br \/>\nalong the dirty curve<br \/>\nof Revere Beach.<br \/>\nA rough-tongued winter.<br \/>\nThe Atlantic churns<br \/>\nits mass of liquid slate<br \/>\nwith cold relentlessness.<\/p>\n<p>The sixteen-year-old poet<br \/>\ncarries a paperback book<br \/>\nat least twice his age.<br \/>\nA yellowing Oscar<br \/>\nWilliams anthology.<\/p>\n<p>He reads the words<br \/>\nof the self-drowned psalmist<br \/>\nof tropic voyages,<br \/>\nMarlovian hymnographer<br \/>\nof azure deeps and steeps.<\/p>\n<p>The sea claimed you,<br \/>\nHart Crane, as you<br \/>\nclaimed the sea, scribe<br \/>\nof brined bones,<br \/>\nof doom and spume,<br \/>\nthe merciless ocean&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8220;bent foam and wave&#8221;<br \/>\nswallowing your song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shell-trash and gull-clutter along the dirty curve of Revere Beach. A rough-tongued winter. The Atlantic churns its mass of liquid slate with cold relentlessness. The sixteen-year-old poet carries a paperback book at least twice his age. A yellowing Oscar Williams anthology. He reads the words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":933,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/933"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43552,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions\/43552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}