{"id":1479,"date":"2012-02-27T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:32:57","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-january-28-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-january-28-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: January 28, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, January 28, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19800128-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-01-28-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19800128-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">28 January 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nDept. of English<br \/>\nColby-Sawyer College<br \/>\nNew London, NH 03257<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the mini-poem. It is an absolutely magnificent<br \/>\nidea, it will be a marvelous poem \u2013 and I don\u2019t think it is<br \/>\nquite yet finished. I think that there is a certain awkwardness,<br \/>\nand haste, perhaps, about the end of the poem. I don\u2019t think<br \/>\nwe should have a comma after \u201cnow.\u201d I think that \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the<\/span> guilt<br \/>\nabout <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">their<\/span> weight,\u201d seems awkward in its little words. And<br \/>\nI <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know<\/span> that \u201cfade like a dream,\u201d is the most total of cliches.<br \/>\nAnd things get a little clichetic further on. \u201cSteaming with<br \/>\nfood,\u201d and \u201cappetizing,\u201d and is \u201cseen\u201d the right word? I like<br \/>\nthe third line from the end. I like the second line from the<br \/>\nend pretty well \u2013 I think the last line is OK but I think it<br \/>\ncould be a whole lot better. I wish you would keep it around<br \/>\na little longer, the way you tend to do anyway, and intensify<br \/>\nor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">freshen<\/span> the last half or third of the poem. It is a marvelous<br \/>\nnotion! Dear to my heart!<\/p>\n<p>Fine for removing those three poems from circulation \u2013<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after<\/span> they come back from the places where they are currently<br \/>\nbeing read. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Be<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sure<\/span> that Howard Dinin waits for Joey\u2019s release.<br \/>\nIt would be embarrassing \u2013 for you, for Amaryllis, Inc. \u2013 if<br \/>\nthese poems were taken by another magazine, and then Joey had<br \/>\nto say that they were not available. Be certain about this,<br \/>\nplease.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good letter from Howard Dinin, and I will be in<br \/>\ntouch with him shortly.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely time with you, also, and loved the photographs.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad that you are enjoying <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">String.<\/span> Did you see that<br \/>\nmy children\u2019s book took the Caldecott? We will be able to<br \/>\nbuild the new bathroom!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you both,<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>Editorial note about this poem:<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>Though McNair does not send Hall a completed version of his &#8220;mini-poem&#8221; until <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-march-29-1980\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">3\/29\/1980<\/span><\/a>, his final revisions at that time reflect Hall&#8217;s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-fat-enter-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Fat Enter Heaven<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version as sent to Hall on 3\/29\/1980)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1479\" data-postid=\"1479\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1479 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] 28 January 1980 Wes McNair Dept. of English Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH 03257 Dear Wes, Thanks for the mini-poem. It is an absolutely magnificent idea, it will be a marvelous poem \u2013 and I don\u2019t think it is quite yet finished. I think that there is a certain awkwardness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35324,596,42965,35504,42973],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"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\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11283,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}