{"id":1735,"date":"2012-04-13T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:56:58","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-6-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-6-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 6, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, October 6, 1980. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19801006-001-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-10-6-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19801006-001-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;\">6 October 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nN. Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think I like it quite so much. Something willful<br \/>\nabout it, I think, maybe in the abstraction. Yet I like the<br \/>\nmiddle of it a lot. I don\u2019t really believe the metaphor of<br \/>\n\u201cthe name\/ given to air\/ we shape\u2026\u201d I like the father with<br \/>\nson, with sisters and brothers\u2026 the middle part there. Then<br \/>\non the second page I don\u2019t really follow it when it gets to be<br \/>\n\u201crounder\u2026\u201d Then I think that the ending is pretty <del datetime=\"2012-04-13T17:22:29+00:00\">and <\/del>invisible,<br \/>\nwith the metaphor of \u201ctrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I am fairly negative, I suppose \u2013 yet I should say:<br \/>\nwithout perfect confidence in my negativity, the way I usually<br \/>\nhave!<\/p>\n<p>Joey keeps busy, but editors are slow as molasses.<\/p>\n<p>Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/em><\/strong><\/span> I\u00a0quickly abandoned \u201cWaving Goodbye,\u201d the poem in question here, but it returned many years later, less abstract in its conception, fastened down by human experience. The final version of &#8220;Waving Goodbye, published in my 1998 collection<em> Talking in the Dark<\/em>, appears below. Sometimes the creative cycle a poem requires is long, and &#8220;Waving Goodbye&#8221; took nearly as long as &#8220;The Retarded Children Play Baseball&#8221; to think through. So this section of letters ends with a kind of promise to my future development as a poet.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/waving-goodbye\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Waving Goodbye<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also a selection of McNair\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wavgoodbye-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">manuscript notes and drafts<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for &#8220;Waving Goodbye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1735\" data-postid=\"1735\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1735 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 6 October 1980 Wes McNair Box 43 N. Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I don\u2019t think I like it quite so much. Something willful about it, I think, maybe in the abstraction. Yet I like the middle of it a lot. I don\u2019t really believe the metaphor of \u201cthe name\/ given [&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\/1735"}],"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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}