{"id":1235,"date":"2010-03-27T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-06-19T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:01:23","slug":"the-kite-and-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/the-kite-and-the-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"the kite and the whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading &#8220;The Kite&#8221; by Marcella Durand. Feeling resistance (not uncommon for me encountering a poem). <\/p>\n<p>The parentheticals are distracting, I&#8217;m wondering why use them, what are they for. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stop thinking about Moby Dick, which may be the definitive ecopoem. It&#8217;s because the poem&#8217;s central image is the sea and the poem ends with three-and-a-half quatrains about oil. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In ringing sea is<br \/>\n(owned) oil:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had an idea for a website, never or not yet realized, to be called Letters to Melville. I wanted to inform him about the current oil culture. Compare and contrast fossil fuels with cetacean fuels. <em>Moby Dick<\/em> is a horrifying book and seems very current. I keep thinking about the giant stinking corpse of the whale hanging off the side of the ship. And then, in the most lyrical passage I have ever read, about the whale nursery. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m distracted reading &#8220;The Kite.&#8221; The kite seems a too-small metaphor to enter this topic, but I can identify as a wee buffeted kite (eye) on the shore, not knowing what to make of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading &#8220;The Kite&#8221; by Marcella Durand. Feeling resistance (not uncommon for me encountering a poem). The parentheticals are distracting, I&#8217;m wondering why use them, what are they for. I can&#8217;t stop thinking about Moby&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","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\/1235","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=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}