{"id":3786,"date":"2012-08-13T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2013-11-06T22:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:10:35","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-august-8-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-august-8-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, August 8, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 8, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840808-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 8, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840808-001-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;\">8 August 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wesley McNair<br \/>\nHominy Pot Rd.<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I love this new poem. When I first looked at<br \/>\nit, I was bothered by what\/that\u2026right on top of each<br \/>\nother. And of course there is the rhyme on \u201cnot\u201d a<br \/>\nlittle later\u2026 I think in the long run I like it much<br \/>\nbetter than I don\u2019t like it. I like the whole poem.<br \/>\nYou are terrific.<\/p>\n<p>I know that a version of the new book is at Norton.<br \/>\nI had a letter from Fran McCullough the other day, at<br \/>\nDial, saying that she wanted to start a new poetry series,<br \/>\nand would I help her. I said yes. I told her that you<br \/>\nmight have a book. Nothing to do about it right now.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some more stuff to look at. What do you<br \/>\nthink?<\/p>\n<p>Good for your Whitman reading in November. There<br \/>\nwill be more!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Editorial note about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Hall responds here to McNair&#8217;s poem &#8220;What It Is,&#8221; sent on August 3, and published in the same version he comments on in this letter&#8211;though McNair has one last question about the poem. To find this question and a text of the poem, see the next letter, which also contains McNair&#8217;s responses to the &#8220;more stuff&#8221; Hall sends him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3786\" data-postid=\"3786\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3786 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 8 August 1984 Wesley McNair Hominy Pot Rd. North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I love this new poem. When I first looked at it, I was bothered by what\/that\u2026right on top of each other. And of course there is the rhyme on \u201cnot\u201d a little later\u2026 I think in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60366,596,42965,35504,77589],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786"}],"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\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10787,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/10787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}