{"id":271,"date":"2011-12-13T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t8el.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-06-20T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T18:28:29","slug":"ive-been-scared-of-reading-john-ashbery-but-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-271 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/t8el.com\/?attachment_id=273'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/t8el.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lw5gckWUG61r1gv8wo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t8el.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lw5gckWUG61r1gv8wo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/t8el.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lw5gckWUG61r1gv8wo1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/t8el.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tumblr_lw5gckWUG61r1gv8wo1_1280.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been scared of reading John Ashbery, but I had half an hour to kill at Blackwell&#8217;s yesterday and I slowly made my way through his <a href=\"http:\/\/poemhunter.com\/poem\/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror\/\" title=\"Poem\" target=\"_blank\">poem<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-prints-on-demand.com\/kunst\/parmigianino\/selbsbildnis.jpg\" title=\"Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror&#8221;<\/a>. Here is how it ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have seen the city; it is the gibbous<\/p>\n<p>Mirrored eye of an insect. All things happen<\/p>\n<p>On its balcony and are resumed within,<\/p>\n<p>But the action is the cold, syrupy flow<\/p>\n<p>Of a pageant. One feels too confined,<\/p>\n<p>Sifting the April sunlight for clues,<\/p>\n<p>In the mere stillness of the ease of its<\/p>\n<p>Parameter. The hand holds no chalk<\/p>\n<p>And each part of the whole falls off<\/p>\n<p>And cannot know it knew, except<\/p>\n<p>Here and there, in cold pockets<\/p>\n<p>Of remembrance, whispers out of time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been missing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been scared of reading John Ashbery, but I had half an hour to kill at Blackwell&#8217;s yesterday and I slowly made my way through his poem\u00a0&#8220;Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror&#8221;. Here is how it ends: We have seen the city; it is the gibbous Mirrored eye of an insect. All things happen On its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t8el.com\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t8el.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}