{"id":494,"date":"2015-02-10T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=494"},"modified":"2018-02-11T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:13:21","slug":"gerrit-lansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2015\/02\/10\/gerrit-lansing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrit Lansing\u2019s \u2018I See Bright Sun Illuminating Absence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear that tomorrow&#8217;s reading by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/gerrit-lansing\">legendary Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/poetryroom\/\">Harvard\u2019s Woodberry Poetry Room<\/a> has been cancelled (Snow!). So I called him up and asked him if he would read me a poem over the phone. This is his poem that he kindly read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I See Bright Sun Illuminating Absence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>snow on juniper<\/p>\n<p>to the feeding station flies<\/p>\n<p>for bread no red bird<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Woodberry reading has been postponed until May, I\u2019m told. Lansing is also scheduled to read with Derek Fenner <a href=\"http:\/\/gloucesterwriters.org\/event\/derek-fenner\/\">at the Gloucester Writers Center on May 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Poem reproduced here with Mr. Lansing&#8217;s permission.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear that tomorrow&#8217;s reading by the legendary Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing at Harvard\u2019s Woodberry Poetry Room has been cancelled (Snow!). So I called him up and asked him if he would read me a poem over the phone. This is his poem that he kindly read: I See Bright Sun Illuminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}