{"id":13776,"date":"2017-07-22T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:26:52","slug":"tom-montag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tom-montag\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Montag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>what it<br \/>\nis. This<br \/>\nis not<\/p>\n<p>symbol.<br \/>\nI am not<br \/>\nmoving<\/p>\n<p>ideas<br \/>\nabout<br \/>\nthese lines.<\/p>\n<p>The birds<br \/>\nspeak truth<br \/>\nto the wind<\/p>\n<p>as plain<br \/>\nas they can.<br \/>\nIt does<\/p>\n<p>not mean<br \/>\nsomething<br \/>\nelse. It<\/p>\n<p>is what<br \/>\nthey say<br \/>\nit is.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t look<br \/>\nfor any-<br \/>\nthing more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><strong>Tom Montag<\/strong> is the author of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>, This Wrecked World,<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>The Miles No One Wants<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>. <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">He has been <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">a <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">featured poet at <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>Atticus Review<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>Contemporary American Voices<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>Houseboat<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\">and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;\"><i>Basil O&#8217;Flaherty Review.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Is Is what it is. This is not symbol. I am not moving ideas about these lines. The birds speak truth to the wind as plain as they can. It does not mean something else. It is what they say it is. Don&#8217;t look for any- thing more. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tom Montag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}