{"id":3100,"date":"2006-01-25T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:16","slug":"brilliance-in-iambic-pentameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Brilliance in iambic pentameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a stack of the novels of <a href=\"www.sarahdessen.com\">Sarah Dessen<\/a> sitting next to my bed, and wanted to do a mass posting\/reading on the theme of girl&#8217;s friendship novels&#8230; but, before I got into that, a slim volume by Ron Koertge snuck up on me. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=0763621161\">Shakespeare Bats Cleanup<\/a>, a novel in poems, is probably the smartest and most polished Boy Book I&#8217;ve read this year. Man. If I ever have the chance to hear Koertge speak, I&#8217;m going to do my best to go. Who knew the man was also a <a href=\"http:\/\/jacketmagazine.com\/01\/koertge.html\">poet?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing I can tell you about this novel that you won&#8217;t pick up better by reading it yourself. It&#8217;s short, it has <a href=\"www.uni.edu\/~gotera\/CraftOfPoetry\/sestina.html\">sestinas<\/a> &#8212; and how often do you run across a <a href=\"www.baymoon.com\/~ariadne\/form\/pantoum.htm\">pantoum?<\/a> Definitely, <em>definitely<\/em> check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a stack of the novels of Sarah Dessen sitting next to my bed, and wanted to do a mass posting\/reading on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}