{"id":125,"date":"2007-03-05T21:16:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T01:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=125"},"modified":"2007-03-05T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T01:16:59","slug":"it-by-inger-christensen-trans-susanna-niednew-directions-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/it-by-inger-christensen-trans-susanna-niednew-directions-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"It by Inger Christensen, trans. Susanna NiedNew Directions, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like Hesiod,&#8221; writes Anne Carson, in her introduction to this volume, &#8220;Inger Christensen wants to give an account of <em>what is<\/em>&#8212;of everything that is and how it is and what we are in the midst of it&#8221; (ix). Which seems promising, as does the structure of the poem: prologos, logos, epilogos, and within logos, three sections, &#8220;stage,&#8221; &#8220;action,&#8221; and &#8220;text,&#8221; each of those divided into eight sections, based on categories taken from a book called <em>A Theory of Prepositions<\/em>. Prologos: before reason, before the word: a becoming, fluid. Then logos: order, structure, reason, how things and people relate and connect. Lines and images resurface, dreamlike: but a poetry more of rhythm than of beauty. This book was written in 1969 and its politics and aesthetics seem very much of that time: there are John and Yoko in one line; there&#8217;s a doctor dropping acid in another. Epilogos, after reason: fear, chaos: short lines and a relentless pace and it ends how it started, but in reverse: &#8220;That&#8217;s it. It.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like Hesiod,&#8221; writes Anne Carson, in her introduction to this volume, &#8220;Inger Christensen wants to give an account of what is&#8212;of everything that is and how it is and what we are in the midst of it&#8221; (ix). Which seems promising, as does the structure of the poem: prologos, logos, epilogos, and within logos, three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}