{"id":3855,"date":"2012-08-15T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2013-11-06T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:43:43","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-september-27-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-september-27-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, September 27, 1984"},"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, September 27, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840927-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, September 27, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19840927-001-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;\">27 September 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nHominy Pot Rd.<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you don\u2019t write too many prose poems. If I love<br \/>\nany one thing most about your work, it is the way you use your<br \/>\nlines! I love your ear\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This is OK. I still think that the end sounds a little<br \/>\nbit as if you wanted to glory-off into space, and that comma<br \/>\nafter \u201cwalking\u201d is awkward, but of course it would be ambiguous<br \/>\nas all get-out without the comma\u2026 I still don\u2019t love it.<\/p>\n<p>I think there is no point in trying The New Yorker with<br \/>\nthis one, because they have never been known to print a prose<br \/>\npoem. May Joey have your permission to skip them with this one,<br \/>\nand just try the others? As for your assumptions on Joey\u2019s<br \/>\npattern\u2026 Joey is not going to tell you nothing! You might<br \/>\nbe right. But then again you might not be. Maybe he gets them<br \/>\nall rejected from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry Now<\/span>, even before he tries Peter Davison?<br \/>\nWeird fellow, that fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3855\" data-postid=\"3855\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3855 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 27 September 1984 Wes McNair Hominy Pot Rd. North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I hope you don\u2019t write too many prose poems. If I love any one thing most about your work, it is the way you use your lines! I love your ear\u2026 This is OK. I still think [&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\/3855"}],"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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}