{"id":6136,"date":"2015-02-17T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:56:55","slug":"the-rainsoaked-poet-philip-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"The Rain-Soaked Poet, Philip Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Poet Laureate died last weekend. Philip Levine, a Detroit native, was the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/02\/my-neighbor-the-poet-laureate-2.html\">caught in the rain<\/a> one day when his neighbor noticed him.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bourne tells the story and a bit more. &#8220;The anger that filled him in his early years was of no use to him as a writer, he told me. &#8216;It was a huge hindrance because it meant I couldn\u2019t write anything worth a damn about that work life,&#8217; he said. &#8216;I couldn\u2019t get that disinterestedness that\u2019s often required. I couldn\u2019t get Wordsworth\u2019s tranquility. It took me until I was about 35 before I really wrote a poem that was about work.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/browse\/118\/3#!\/20595193\">Read some of Levine&#8217;s poems here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Poet Laureate died last weekend. Philip Levine, a Detroit native, was the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate. He was caught in the rain one day when his neighbor noticed him. Michael Bourne tells the story and a bit more. &#8220;The anger that filled him in his early years was of no use to him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rain-Soaked Poet, Philip Levine<\/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":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","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\/6136","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=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}