{"id":3484,"date":"2017-10-31T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2017-10-31T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:11:28","slug":"for-class-1031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/10\/31\/for-class-1031\/","title":{"rendered":"For Class 10\/31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cWhy I am Not a Painter\u201d, Frank O\u2019Hara writes, \u201cOne day I am thinking of \/ a color: orange. I write a line \/ about orange. Pretty soon it is a \/ whole page of words, not lines [\u2026] Days go by [\u2026] My poem \/ is finished and I haven\u2019t mentioned \/ orange yet. It\u2019s twelve poems, I call \/ it ORANGES.\u201d O\u2019Hara compares his poetry process to that of a painter and with a thick irony that leads me to believe this \u201corange monologue\u201d is intentional. You see, Frank O\u2019Hara\u2019s poetry is <em>fruitless<\/em>. In one sense, it is literally without fruit (\u201cI haven\u2019t mentioned orange yet\u201d) and, in another, it process and gestation is fruitless. O\u2019Hara pithily includes, \u201cIt is even in \/ prose, I am a real poet.\u201d If Mike Goldberg can get away with this fruitlessness in painting (or, I guess, Sardinelessness), maybe it is not O\u2019Hara\u2019s poetry that is fruitless but the rules to which it is confined: the arbitrary regulations that elevate prose or experimental poetry. This is further indicated by the tight vertical stanzas that stand in distinct contrast with the flowing loose sentences they contain. O\u2019Hara\u2019s experiment with word play makes-meaning in that it helps us understand a possible critique O\u2019Hara is making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cWhy I am Not a Painter\u201d, Frank O\u2019Hara writes, \u201cOne day I am thinking of \/ a color: orange. I write a line \/ about orange. Pretty soon it is a \/ whole page of words, not&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/10\/31\/for-class-1031\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interventions","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/files\/2017\/10\/alice-neel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}