{"id":2236,"date":"2008-12-05T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2008-12-05T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:17:29","slug":"he-doesnt-hide-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He Doesn&#8217;t Hide Things&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Poet Laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/278\">Billy Collins doesn&#8217;t hide things <\/a>like lesser poets do, according to poet Stephen Dunn.  &#8220;He allows us to overhear, clearly, what he himself has discovered.&#8221;  Read some of his work on <a href=\"http:\/\/donmilleris.com\/2008\/11\/19\/billy-collins\/\">this author&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and note this poem on Poets.org called, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/20177\">Introduction to Poetry.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . But all they want to do<br \/>\n<br \/>is tie the poem to a chair with rope<br \/>\n<br \/>and torture a confession out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do people care about poetry anymore?  Do they want only to know what a poet is trying to say and care nothing about beautiful words? [HT to SB]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins doesn&#8217;t hide things like lesser poets do, according to poet Stephen Dunn. &#8220;He allows us to overhear, clearly, what he himself has discovered.&#8221; Read some of his work on this author&#8217;s blog, and note this poem on Poets.org called, &#8220;Introduction to Poetry.&#8221; &#8220;. . . But all they want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;He Doesn&#8217;t Hide Things&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}