{"id":60363,"date":"2017-05-29T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60363"},"modified":"2017-05-29T07:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:26:40","slug":"more-poetry-for-memorial-day-tomas-transtromers-the-half-finished-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60363","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry for Memorial Day: Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer&#8217;s The Half-Finished Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/2011\/transtromer-poetry_heaven.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despondency breaks off its course.<br \/>\nAnguish breaks off its course.<br \/>\nThe vulture breaks off its flight.<\/p>\n<p>The eager light streams out,<br \/>\neven the ghosts take a draught.<\/p>\n<p>And our paintings see daylight,<br \/>\nour red beasts of the ice-age studios.<br \/>\nEverything begins to look around.<br \/>\nWe walk in the sun in hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>Each man is a half-open door<br \/>\nleading to a room for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The endless ground under us.<\/p>\n<p>The water is shining among the trees.<\/p>\n<p>The lake is a window into the earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Despondency breaks off its course. Anguish breaks off its course. The vulture breaks off its flight. The eager light streams out, even the ghosts take a draught. And our paintings see daylight, our red beasts of the ice-age<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60363\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60364,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions\/60364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}