{"id":4131,"date":"2016-05-11T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2016-05-08T23:35:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T21:35:24","slug":"poet-yet-unborn-collected-poems-abbie-huston-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To a Poet Yet Unborn,&#8221; from <em>Collected Poems<\/em>, by Abbie Huston Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap.jpg\" alt=\"leap\" width=\"700\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap.jpg 700w, https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap-514x315.jpg 514w, https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/leap-800x490.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>To a Poet Yet Unborn<\/h3>\n<p>Attempt what&#8217;s perpendicular. Scale what&#8217;s impossible.<br \/>\nTry the knife edge between two voids; look into both abysses.<br \/>\nBring back some word of wordlessness if strength enough is in you.<br \/>\nWrite doggedly of dizzying things; with small implacable digits<br \/>\nDelimit space to fit the brain, that it may bulk and be.<\/p>\n<p>No one but you can help us much. Subdue what blasts. Dare do it.<br \/>\nRide formlessness, word wordlessness. Be not aghast. Be poet.<\/p>\n<h3><em>from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/23z3zuU\">Collected Poems<\/a>, by Abbie Huston Evans<br \/>\nPittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a Poet Yet Unborn Attempt what&#8217;s perpendicular. Scale what&#8217;s impossible. Try the knife edge between two voids; look into both abysses. Bring back some word of wordlessness if strength enough is in you. Write &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"&#8220;To a Poet Yet Unborn,&#8221; from Collected Poems, by Abbie Huston Evans\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/?p=4131#more-4131\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;To a Poet Yet Unborn,&#8221; from Collected Poems, by Abbie Huston Evans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[154,141],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-abbie-huston-evans","tag-poetry","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neglectedbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}