{"id":272,"date":"2010-11-19T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:21:21","slug":"anne-carson-on-discovering-at-dinner-that-adam-zagajewski-and-i-share-a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/272\/poems\/anne-carson-on-discovering-at-dinner-that-adam-zagajewski-and-i-share-a-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson &#8211; On Discovering at Dinner that Adam Zagajewski and I Share a Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>metals talking among themselves, metals that first meet above the earth..<\/p>\n<p>Adam Zagajewski, <em>Another Beauty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought about it walking home.<\/p>\n<p>One ot chose relentlessly clear midwest II idnights frozen all the way up to a half<br \/>\nmoon loose in hers team in blueblack vastness. Silent silent. Agnostic night.<br \/>\nNo blackbirds.<br \/>\nShare a birthday! &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>were we<\/p>\n<p>negatives lying side by side in the developer&#8217;s tray while certain weird red minutes<br \/>\ndrained away? Or loitering together in that lobby in heaven where June 21st souls<br \/>\nall gather to wait<br \/>\nand Adam and I<\/p>\n<p>[avoiding Sartre]<\/p>\n<p>ducked to a corner to talk about scansion. He mentioned, as always, Catullus.<br \/>\nI would have liked a cup of tea. This was shortly<br \/>\nafter the big bang.<br \/>\nMicrowaves<\/p>\n<p>hissed past us<\/p>\n<p>like bad radio stations. There was a desolation here and there in our minds.<br \/>\nKnives were singing, Adam made a note about this. A philosopher (not Sartre)<br \/>\nstood in a knot of disciples<br \/>\nexpounding<\/p>\n<p>the difference between<\/p>\n<p>[two concepts that must be distinguished]. Most wore shaggy furs or sheepskins,<br \/>\nthe philosopher a heavy sweater. &#8216;It will be warmer after we&#8217;re born,&#8217;<br \/>\nI said to Adam<br \/>\nand he said,<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Of this I am not sure.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>metals talking among themselves, metals that first meet above the earth.. Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty I thought about it walking home. One ot chose relentlessly clear midwest II idnights frozen all the way up to a half moon loose in hers team in blueblack vastness. Silent silent. Agnostic night. No blackbirds. Share a birthday! &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/272\/poems\/anne-carson-on-discovering-at-dinner-that-adam-zagajewski-and-i-share-a-birthday\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}