{"id":2392,"date":"2024-07-04T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:54:28","slug":"poetry-by-kevin-holden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Kevin Holden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>equation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>antithesis blue insect patterning<br>over a sudden<br>parallax blueshifting or<br>combination underground laboratory<br>that would heap in luminous<br>desert playground, at dusk<br>the tiny wings<br>unfurling over the astroturf<br>or gypsum fields alight in the<br>milky way<br>you to argue, how many<br>over money the shield<br>in pyrite to sew the end of the row<br>bent book for friend &amp; lost<br>sex in the ocean or<br>string of pearls in textured<br>field recordings they falsify the data<br>for a shadow that lies<br>between the idea<br>&amp; the act<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4>sheen<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>square garnet faded dream mount<br>as a tree could unfold in waves<br>radio signals glimmering as ghost cloth<br>&amp; a song from the sun<br>under the bridge giving head<br>to many men, their thickness<br>star asterism that curved stream<br>a street sign, a nocturne, a cloud<br>stratocumulus in media to divine<br>meaning in white loops white mage of grains<br>fluid dynamics rival in a daisy chain<br>your chin inside its own heart cliff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Holden is a poet, translator, and essayist. His books include <em>Solar<\/em>, which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, <em>Birch<\/em>, which won the Ahsahta Press Award, and <em>Pink Noise<\/em>, recently out from Nightboat Books. His translation of Jean Daive\u2019s <em>The Figure Outward<\/em> is forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He has taught at Bard, Brown, and Iowa and is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instagram: @kevin.holden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>square garnet faded dream mount \/ as a tree could unfold in waves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}