{"id":13577,"date":"2017-08-02T15:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2021-11-12T07:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:56:05","slug":"brinkerhoff-to-mcnair-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/brinkerhoff-to-mcnair-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brinkerhoff to McNair #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 7, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I am poring over these poems. There&#8217;s so much rich imagery I scarcely knew where to begin but several things truly jump out at me. Much of the imagery that I find so powerful has a narrative specificity that I&#8217;m unsure would work well for the cover, but one section in particular is exceptionally imagistic. I wonder if you would consider it a good point of departure in the development of a cover image. It also happens to be part of the title poem, so I think it&#8217;s apropos, but let me know if you think it&#8217;s not worth pursuing:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><b>&#8230;In dreams<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>the body, which longs for transformation<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>too, suddenly lifts us above the dark<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>roofs of our houses, and far above<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>the streets of the town, until they seem<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>like any other small things fastened to earth.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div>So profoundly beautiful! In this passage I sense the convergence of many ideas I saw at play throughout the collection: exhilaration and grief, surrender and resignation, wistfulness and exactitude, bondage and release, material and spiritual.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Does this make sense to you?<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I also think that this imagery may relate significantly to the two other covers, in that its emphasis on our relationship to the physical world would once again be called out.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Also, care to say anything about the above lines? If you think I&#8217;m onto something and would prefer to not reflect openly, that&#8217;s fine. Just let me know and I&#8217;ll get to work on some sketches.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Thanks Wes,<\/div>\n<div>Rob<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13577\" data-postid=\"13577\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13577 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Dear Wes, &nbsp; I am poring over these poems. There&#8217;s so much rich imagery I scarcely knew where to begin but several things truly jump out at me. Much of the imagery that I find so powerful has a narrative specificity that I&#8217;m unsure would work well for the cover, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77692],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13662,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}