{"id":1163,"date":"2010-03-07T19:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2010-06-19T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:10:30","slug":"no-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/no-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"no comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I saw him later, carrying around a strange sculpture difficult to describe, because there was no comparison to it in the natural world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Brenda Coultas, &#8220;The Bowery Project,&#8221; page 24<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of traits that shock us, human beings&#8217; urban habitats and relations with things would be among the most shocking if they weren&#8217;t so familiar. I have to think of these human environments as &#8220;natural&#8221; because where else would they come from? <\/p>\n<p>What Coultas&#8217;s piece offers is sustained attention. This is a natural history skill, and one readily applied by poets. It is good to direct the attention of language to surroundings that are generally scorned. <\/p>\n<p>This piece is in the form of prose fragments. Fragments build up into something, just like a garbage dump does. They have a natural feel. There is a familiar use of language here.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t find this piece exciting though. Is it because of the topic? or some other reason? It lacks luminosity (optimism?). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw him later, carrying around a strange sculpture difficult to describe, because there was no comparison to it in the natural world. Brenda Coultas, &#8220;The Bowery Project,&#8221; page 24 Speaking of traits that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecopoetics","category-volume-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}