{"id":1358,"date":"2017-05-25T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1358"},"modified":"2024-01-12T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:01:06","slug":"unions-by-alfred-corn","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/product\/unions-by-alfred-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Unions<\/em>, Alfred Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has had the skill and courage to confront, absorb, and renew our poetic tradition at its most vital.<br \/>\n\u2014Harold Bloom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Few poets could sustain, as Corn does, both the fiery voluptuousness of the abstract oracular passages, and the broken simplicity of the late 20th-century voice, tentative, self-conscious, unheroic.<br \/>\n\u2014Wayne Koestenbaum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the very fact of mobility and diversity as an epic theme, he brings to it a discerning eye and ear, a marvelous memory for detail, and above all an exhilarating range of sympathy.<br \/>\n\u2014Amy Clampitt<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to arm each other&#8217;s to strike\/up the band our golden pledge&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-size=\"large\" data-text=\"&quot;to arm each other's to strike\/up the band our golden pledge&quot;\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2uA4zFS\" data-via=\"BarrowStreetInc\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How brief it is, that fiery burst of thunder!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-size=\"large\" data-text=\"&quot;How brief it is, that fiery burst of thunder!&quot;\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2uA4zFS\" data-via=\"BarrowStreetInc\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Streaming tears hitched teamsters<br \/>\njogging the wheel of progress<br \/>\nin unison or close harmony<br \/>\nwhile bells peal and call us<br \/>\nto arms each other\u2019s to strike<br \/>\nup the band our golden pledge<br \/>\nout of one plus one many<br \/>\nnew states of fellow feeling<br \/>\nconstituting a more perfect union<br \/>\nthat crowns us as one flash<br \/>\nof insight with improved working<br \/>\nconditions for love a nonnegotiable<br \/>\nbond united we stand<br \/>\nshoulder to shoulder against<br \/>\nisolation when industry<br \/>\ntwines separate fibers<br \/>\nof reflection and passion<br \/>\nfor you K. and for us this<br \/>\nembodies a double entendre<br \/>\na workingman\u2019s pastoral<br \/>\nit\u2019s all one under the greenwood tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applicable bookseller\/retail discount on bulk orders of 10+ copies automatically applied at checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1358","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}