{"id":111,"date":"2018-07-08T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-12-21T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:55:53","slug":"galway-kinnell-from-the-book-of-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/galway-kinnell-from-the-book-of-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway Kinnell: from The Book of Nightmares<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAssemblage: English 495 “Topics in English: Computers and Composition” Summer 1989<\/a><\/p>\n

I had heard Kinnell read from The Book of Nightmares<\/em> when I was an undergraduate at Michigan State. It was as close to a genuine religious experience as I have had. In my head, 50 years later, I can still hear his voice at the end of the book: “The wages of dying are love.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assemblage: English 495 “Topics in English: Computers and Composition” Summer 1989 I had heard Kinnell read from The Book of Nightmares when I was an undergraduate at Michigan State. It was as close to a genuine religious experience as I have had. In my head, 50 years later, I can still hear his voice at … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pafo44-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}