{"id":830,"date":"2010-12-18T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2010-12-20T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:47:00","slug":"such-a-little-fatal-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Such a Little Fatal Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the current\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/dec\/23\/art-flamingo-watching\/\">New York Review of Books<\/a>, critic Helen Vendler has written a somewhat thorny review of &#8220;The Best of It,&#8221; the new collection from former Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. But we get the full &#8220;After Zeno,&#8221; a lovely elegy that Ryan wrote for her father when she was twenty:<\/p>\n<p>When he was<\/p>\n<p>I was.<\/p>\n<p>But I still am<\/p>\n<p>And he is still.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Where is is<\/p>\n<p>when is was?<\/p>\n<p>I have an is<\/p>\n<p>but where is his?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>no where:<\/p>\n<p>such a little fatal pause.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no sense<\/p>\n<p>in past tense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current\u00a0New York Review of Books, critic Helen Vendler has written a somewhat thorny review of &#8220;The Best of It,&#8221; the new collection from former Poet Laureate Kay Ryan. But we get the full &#8220;After Zeno,&#8221; a lovely elegy that Ryan wrote for her father when she was twenty: When he was I was. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}