{"id":808,"date":"2010-09-06T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=808"},"modified":"2010-09-06T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T10:47:00","slug":"carrie-etter-is-pursued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/carrie-etter-is-pursued\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Etter is pursued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pursuit, Dublin<\/span>
  <\/span>
My destroying angel has the genitals<\/span>
of a man and a fickle heart.<\/span>
On Grafton Street the shoppers<\/span>
absorb him without a shriek.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Laceless shoes, ringless fingers\u2014<\/span>
nothing to slow my gait,<\/span>
though if he\u2019s manly, he\u2019s a fair wind\u2014<\/span>
I erode by grains.<\/span>



*<\/span>American poet <\/span>Carrie Etter<\/span><\/a> has lived in England since 2001. Her first collection, <\/span>The Tethers<\/span>, was published by Seren in 2009, and her second, <\/span>Divining for Starters<\/span>, will be published by Shearsman next year. She has also edited an anthology, <\/span>Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets <\/span>(Shearsman, 2010).<\/p>\n

Pursuit, Dublin<\/span> was first published in the TLS<\/span>
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Pursuit, Dublin  My destroying angel has the genitalsof a man and a fickle heart.On Grafton Street the shoppersabsorb him without a shriek. Laceless shoes, ringless fingers\u2014nothing to slow my gait,though if he\u2019s manly, he\u2019s a fair wind\u2014I erode by grains.*American poet Carrie Etter has lived in England since 2001. Her first collection, The Tethers, was published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}