{"id":82821,"date":"2014-12-09T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=82821"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:14:06","slug":"holiday-greeting-a-reading-of-the-poem-fiction-by-robert-farnsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/09\/holiday-greeting-a-reading-of-the-poem-fiction-by-robert-farnsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday greeting: A poetry reading by Robert Farnsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Holiday greeting 2014: A reading of the poem Fiction by Robert Farnsworth\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111782582?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>after Wallace Stevens <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read late a winter\u2019s night. Feel the rooms around,<br \/>\nThe rooms within the mind resist the dark.<br \/>\nThe fire burns as the novel taught it how.<br \/>\nSummer\u2019s sounding bowl may ripen clouds<br \/>\nIn the pages you pay out beside the hearth.<br \/>\nRead late this winter night, and the room around,<br \/>\nThe rooms within you will gently fill with proud,<br \/>\nPassing voices. Even now, in the cedar\u2019s heart<br \/>\nFire burns as the novel taught it how.<br \/>\nSo make each hard scene arrive, as if somehow<br \/>\nForeknown in the cold, complex kilter of the stars.<br \/>\nRead later into the night, until your room surrounds<br \/>\nA world, where flames unfurl awful flags or drowse<br \/>\nIn the furnaces of sinners. Where desires pour<br \/>\nOr crystallize as music taught them how.<br \/>\nRise, old moon, above the pallor of snow,<br \/>\nSummoning pillars of smoke toward<br \/>\nThe stars. Read the dark you\u2019ve loomed around<br \/>\nUs all. The fire burns as the novel taught it how.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fiction&#8221; first appeared in Robert Farnsworth&#8217;s book <\/em>Rumored Islands,<br \/>\n<em> published by Harbor Mountain Press in 2010. Farnsworth is a senior lecturer in English at Bates.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates poet Robert Farnsworth gives an illustrated reading of his poem \u201cFiction,\u201d which was inspired by a line from Wallace Stevens, \u201cThe fire burns as the novel taught it how.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":83023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,9946],"tags":[3271,10580,10920],"class_list":["post-82821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-english6","tag-narrative-multimedia-2","tag-robert-farnsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82821"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82992,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82821\/revisions\/82992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}