{"id":2057,"date":"2013-07-16T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2021-08-04T22:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T22:51:25","slug":"romance-of-the-hand-and-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2013\/07\/16\/romance-of-the-hand-and-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance of the Hand and Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> It is a pity it is evening, Li Po:<br>would that we could all sit,<br>cracking brazil nuts and <br>muckracking with the moon.<br>And yet look! The supinated <br>limbs of factory laborers, sewing <br>buttons onto starched shirts until<br>nimble fingers bleed, reattach<br>to wrists, arms, then torsos:<br>sensations stir, a cool breeze.<br>Tell a dream, lose a reader: <br>how else to explain Daphne\u2019s<br>rebellion from the god of<br>sex: rights reverting, after <br>the production of desire, <br>to you, and me, and trees.<\/p>\n\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.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a pity it is evening, Li Po:would that we could all sit,cracking brazil nuts and muckracking with the moon.And yet look! The supinated limbs of factory laborers, sewing buttons onto starched shirts untilnimble fingers bleed, reattachto wrists, arms,<\/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\/2057"}],"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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}