{"id":4866,"date":"2011-12-01T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:07:52","slug":"a-word-for-berryman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4866","title":{"rendered":"A Word for Berryman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBerryman leapt to his death from a bridge in Minneapolis\u201d\u2014Dacey and Jauss, Strong Measures<br \/>\n\u201cHe jumped from a height of a hundred feet\u201d\u2014Cody Walker, Kenyon Review Blog<br \/>\n\u201cHe died by throwing himself off a bridge.\u201d\u2014poets.org, Academy of American Poets<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dog tired, suisired, a thing so heavy&#8211;<br \/>\nI doubt leapt, jumped, throw les mots juste<br \/>\nfor his worn doing.\u00a0 Perhaps viscosity<br \/>\nshould be there someplace, a thick, slow ooze<br \/>\nface first over and done.\u00a0 We can\u2019t hock<br \/>\nthe clock that loses an era a day, wag;<br \/>\nthe molted cuckoo\u2019s throttled to a clunk.<br \/>\nNo more tricks up our sleeve (or trouser leg).<\/p>\n<p>The slogging tome won\u2019t end, organically.<br \/>\nThe plot goes cold. The protagonist is Winter.<br \/>\n\u201cGoo-Goo\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWoo-Who\u201d \u201cMake Do\u201d \u201cD\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u201d \u2013<br \/>\nthe chapters went along swimmingly<br \/>\nuntil we hit that turgid \u201cD\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u201d denouement delaying the final chapter.<br \/>\nThe dread we\u2019d be assigned a Vol. II.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/4752\">Paul Allen<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBerryman leapt to his death from a bridge in Minneapolis\u201d\u2014Dacey and Jauss, Strong Measures \u201cHe jumped from a height of a hundred feet\u201d\u2014Cody Walker, Kenyon Review Blog \u201cHe died by throwing himself off a bridge.\u201d\u2014poets.org, Academy of American Poets Dog tired, suisired, a thing so heavy&#8211; I doubt leapt, jumped, throw les mots juste for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1gu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10280,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}