{"id":982,"date":"2009-04-14T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-04-15T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T08:05:45","slug":"poem-14-blank-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/poem-14-blank-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 14: &#8220;[Blank Verse]&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I&nbsp;never saw Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s &quot;[Blank Verse]&quot; until tonight. When I&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/uspoetsabroad.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/24\/hemingways-blank-verse\/\" target=\"_blank\">first saw it on someone else&#8217;s blog<\/a>,&nbsp;I was certain it was a hoax, but I&nbsp;actually confirmed its authenticity. It&#8217;s right there on page 6 of Hemingway&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0803272596?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tengrrl-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0803272596\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Complete Poems<\/em><\/a>, written in 1916.&nbsp; I&nbsp;think it&#8217;s a little hard to read, so I&nbsp;added boldface to make things stand out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80px;\"><strong>[Blank    Verse]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 80px;\"><strong>&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;    <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    ,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    .<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    ,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    .<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    ;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    !<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say that I appreciate Hemingway&#8217;s fiction, but his work falls outside the areas I usually follow. Having found &quot;[Blank Verse]&quot; though, I&#8217;m wondering if I shouldn&#8217;t take some time to page through his poetry. Maybe there&#8217;s another hidden wonder inside. For now, I&#8217;m going to head to bed wondering how on earth you present that poem at a poetry reading :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I&nbsp;never saw Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s &quot;[Blank Verse]&quot; until tonight. When I&nbsp;first saw it on someone else&#8217;s blog,&nbsp;I was certain it was a hoax, but I&nbsp;actually confirmed its authenticity. It&#8217;s right there on page 6 of Hemingway&#8217;s Complete Poems, written in 1916.&nbsp; I&nbsp;think it&#8217;s a little hard to read, so I&nbsp;added boldface to make things stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}