{"id":1081,"date":"2013-07-15T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2021-08-04T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T22:52:23","slug":"dolores-hazes-love-letter-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2013\/07\/15\/dolores-hazes-love-letter-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores Haze&#8217;s Love Letter to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crepe de chine of my floor-length<br \/>gown dusts the corridor through which<br \/>I pass, en route to the governor\u2019s ball,<br \/>glass of <em>Cr\u00e9mant d&#8217;Alsace<\/em> in my<br \/>fusilladed hand. Were this an<br \/>opera, the flautist would be<br \/>poised, instrument aloft,<br \/>in the orchestral pit:<br \/>as it stands, it\u2019s a book,<br \/>pages burning, and I<br \/>its author slash muse,<br \/>inaugurating speech<br \/>from my head-set,<br \/>master console<br \/>at headquarters<br \/>crackling, crackling,<br \/>before lighting this<br \/>Victorian melodrama<br \/>(smoke and mirrors<br \/>of <em>De Profundis<\/em>)<br \/>on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Virginia Konchan<\/strong>&#8216;s poems have appeared in B<em>est New Poets, the Believer, The New Yorker,<\/em> and T<em>he New Republic<\/em>, and her criticism in <em>Boston Review, Quarterly Conversation, Barzakh Magazine, <\/em>and elsewhere. Co-founder of <em>Matter<\/em>, a literary journal of political poetry and commentary, she lives in Chicago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crepe de chine of my floor-lengthgown dusts the corridor through whichI pass, en route to the governor\u2019s ball,glass of Cr\u00e9mant d&#8217;Alsace in myfusilladed hand. Were this anopera, the flautist would bepoised, instrument aloft,in the orchestral pit:as it stands, it\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[21990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}