{"id":1179,"date":"2014-07-22T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:13:38","slug":"against-our-vanishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Against Our Vanishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this would happen soon. But I hoped it wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"The Sighted Singer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/30\/arts\/allen-grossman-a-poets-poet-and-scholar-dies-at-82.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Allen Grossman,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525;\">January 7, 1932 \u2013 June 27, 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. The making of poems is a practice \u2014 a work human beings can do \u2014 in which civilization has invested some part of its love of itself and the world.\u00a0 The poem is a trace of the will of all persons to be known and to make known and, therefore, to be at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this would happen soon. But I hoped it wouldn&#8217;t. Allen Grossman,\u00a0January 7, 1932 \u2013 June 27, 2014. \u201cPoetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. The making of poems is a practice \u2014 a work human beings can do \u2014 in which civilization has invested some part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Against Our Vanishing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}