{"id":6271,"date":"2013-05-06T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:24:24","slug":"poetry-and-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/poetry-and-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry and photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of me, you may have noticed my twin interests: photography and poetry. I think of them separately, but both are creative expressions or the Universe talking back to itself visually versus verbally. I hesitate to bring the two together in the most obvious way, which would be to associate a poem and a photo. Foremost, there is "the thing not named," a concept I get from Willa Cather, although it is older and widely practiced. I have felt that if one *needed* to explain a poem, something went wrong (possibly in the reader’s head, not mine). The urge to explain is strong in me and all of my poems arise in a context that I could document and my 3 readers might even enjoy that. <\/p>\n

I’m certain a poem and a photo could work together, but I’m reluctant to yoke the two together, to require you to see what I see in a poem or hear what I hear in a photo. I don’t even want to do that to myself, let alone to you, Dear Reader.<\/p>\n

However, some things go together like [insert one thing] and [insert something that goes with that]. For example,<\/p>\n

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Of course, over a period of 30 years, I’ve taken a lot of photos of Merri<\/a>, any one of which might work as well here. And, she figures into more than one poem<\/a>. But these two are a good fit, you have to admit.<\/p>\n

Likewise, the pairing of my preaching raven with Wind Makes Crazy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/a> and photography<\/a> are always on my mind, but in particular, I\u2019ve wanted for quite a while to produce a book of either or both. Maybe someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of me, you may have noticed my twin interests: photography and poetry. I think of them separately, but both are creative expressions or the Universe talking back to itself visually versus verbally. I hesitate to bring the two together in the most obvious way, which would be to associate a poem and a photo. … Continue reading Poetry and photography<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[43,160],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-poetry","tag-merri","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}