{"id":7731,"date":"2021-08-16T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:47:32","slug":"peter-is-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"PETER IS A POET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/restricted-2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7743 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/restricted-2-241x300.jpeg?resize=241%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the Internet, where anyone can express an opinion however vociferously. It makes one long for the days before virtuality. Trolls. And print. I still enjoy reading books and magazines and recently\u00a0learned of Renaissance poet Laura Battiferri in an excellent article by art critic Peter Schjeldahl, whom I admire greatly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PETER IS A POET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt has many mansions,\u201d<br \/>\naccording to Peter Schjeldahl.<br \/>\n\u201cToday the most compelling<br \/>\ntend to the tumbledown.\u201d<br \/>\nI ponder \u201ctumbledown\u201d<br \/>\nand how it applies.<br \/>\nAre we to the point<br \/>\nwhere we ache for the past so badly,<br \/>\nwe plaster on anything<br \/>\n<em>vintage<\/em> or gaudy?<\/p>\n<p>Interrupted by a ding-<br \/>\nI forgot to turn off Notifications-<br \/>\na comment from a supposed friend<br \/>\ntaking umbrage with a quote I\u2019d posted.<br \/>\n\u201cIn a sense we haven\u2019t got an identity<br \/>\nuntil somebody tells our story.<br \/>\nThe fiction makes us real.\u201d-Robert Kroetsch.<br \/>\nDF: So Harry Potter is real? Lots of books<br \/>\nabout him. How about Spiderman?<br \/>\nAsk a 10-year-old. Both are pretty fucking<br \/>\nreal to that crowd.<\/p>\n<p>DF: Huh?<br \/>\nNo doubt Kroetch meant \u201creal\u201d figuratively.<br \/>\nDF employs the word, \u201cbullshit.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s vital to explain my folly, prove his point.<br \/>\nTroll. I don\u2019t type \u201ctroll.\u201d<br \/>\nI may curse like a laid-off oil rig worker<br \/>\nbut refrain from further verbal engagement,<br \/>\nemploy the Block option.<br \/>\nI can live without winning,<br \/>\nwill take my triumphs elsewhere,<br \/>\nreturn to the <em>New Yorker<\/em><br \/>\nand Schjeldahl\u2019s <em>The Medici at the Met<\/em><br \/>\nto marvel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he\u2019s a poet as well as a critic,<br \/>\naccording to Wikipedia.<br \/>\nThe highest form of literature.<br \/>\nExplains his facility with language.<br \/>\nI highlight resonant phrases in yellow:<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026virtuosic artifice.\u201d<br \/>\nYes, feigning demands feigning well,<br \/>\ngoing for the gusto.<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230;ornamenting a milieu of preening style<br \/>\nand often freewheeling Eros,\u201d<br \/>\na reference to the Medici state.<\/p>\n<p>Helldogs. Vulgate.<br \/>\nI must use those!<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230;accidently burlesque ways.\u201d<br \/>\nI wish to employ \u201cburlesque\u201d thusly<br \/>\nbut these days most people<br \/>\nassociate the term with strippers<br \/>\ninstead of its true meaning, \u201cparody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Misogyny.<br \/>\nI suspect that\u2019s DF\u2019s problem.<br \/>\nI dared to eschew<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026the golden circle of his regard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ah, the Internet, where anyone can express an opinion however vociferously. It makes one long for the days before virtuality. Trolls. And print. I still enjoy reading books and magazines and recently\u00a0learned of Renaissance poet Laura Battiferri in an excellent article by art critic Peter Schjeldahl, whom I admire greatly. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}