{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-07T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:29:11","slug":"margo-writes-poetry-that-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/margo-writes-poetry-that-i-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Margo Writes Poetry that I Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a lovely visit with Margo and Dr. D in Lexington, VA, mostly spent talking and eating and walking dogs.\u00a0 Yesterday, Margo gave me a book of her poetry.\u00a0 I always feel a little ambivalent when people I love share their creative work with me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to see what they&#8217;ve produced, yet I&#8217;m terrified I&#8217;ll hate it and have to effuse fake appreciation for it.<\/p>\n<p>I should say at this point, also, that I don&#8217;t enjoy poetry.\u00a0 Excluding the fine works of Shel Silverstein, I find poetry inaccessible.\u00a0 Moreover, I know you&#8217;re supposed to read poetry like you taste wine:\u00a0 read a little bit, swish it around for awhile, and see what you notice.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I couldn&#8217;t do that with Margo&#8217;s book.\u00a0 I woke up at 2am, picked it up, and at 3, I was still chugging through the thing.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0 It was narrative and lyrical, thought-provoking without being cryptic, sad yet hopeful.\u00a0 Made me want to write poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a lovely visit with Margo and Dr. D in Lexington, VA, mostly spent talking and eating and walking dogs.\u00a0 Yesterday, Margo gave me a book of her poetry.\u00a0 I always feel a little ambivalent when people I love share their creative work with me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to see what they&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/margo-writes-poetry-that-i-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Margo Writes Poetry that I Like<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}