{"id":914,"date":"2012-01-19T15:14:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=914"},"modified":"2013-12-09T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:04:51","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-january-14-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-january-14-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: January 14, 1978"},"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, January 14, 1978, Page 1. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780114-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Page-1-Hall-to-McNair-1-14-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780114-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, January 14, 1978, Page 2. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780114-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Page-2-Hall-to-McNair-1-14-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19780114-002-colby.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">1 January 1978<br \/>\nDear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Jane and I loved getting your long letter. Good for you on the<br \/>\ntranslations. Your arrangement sounds foolproof &#8211; or maybe it is failsafe.<br \/>\nMiriam Diez has translated Adrienne\u2026 In the same mail as your letter,<br \/>\nI had a long letter from Adrienne. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L\u2019hasard objectif<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Will you come back next summer? When? We miss you.<\/p>\n<p>You asked me if anybody has translated poems from \u201cOtras Poemas.\u201d<br \/>\nBy whom? Is that Parra? Not that I know of &#8211; but then, I wouldn\u2019t know.<br \/>\nWhen did the book come out? Denise Levertov ought to know. You could write<br \/>\nher at Tufts\/Medford\/Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas <del datetime=\"2012-01-19T19:15:29+00:00\">Moon<\/del> must be <del datetime=\"2012-01-19T19:15:29+00:00\">E<\/del>eldritch, under those conditions. I\u2019ve been<br \/>\nin England for Christmas, when the cabbages were still growing in the back<br \/>\nyards &#8211; but at least the sun knew enough not to show up.<\/p>\n<p>Fried brains for New Year\u2019s Eve. Sounds good. That fish-monger mongs<br \/>\nmore than fish. I like that T-shirt\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Wes, you mention that you would like to see the revised \u201cStone Walls\u201d<br \/>\nand then say \u201cas I\u2019d very much like to talk about some of your prose poems.\u201d<br \/>\nBut \u201cStone Walls\u201d has no prose in it. Are you thinking of \u201cFlies\u201d? I will<br \/>\nsend either, happily. Let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-914\" data-postid=\"914\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-914 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 1 January 1978 Dear Wes, Jane and I loved getting your long letter. Good for you on the translations. Your arrangement sounds foolproof &#8211; or maybe it is failsafe. Miriam Diez has translated Adrienne\u2026 In the same mail as your letter, I had a long letter from Adrienne. L\u2019hasard objectif. Will [&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":[35316,596,42965,35504,35505],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}