A friend writes:
\nWhich poem do you like best?
\nAnd he mentions Ezra Pound, who
\nsaid that less
\nis more.<\/p>\n
I guess I
\nlike the shorter one the best.
\nI want to sense the holes in
\nexistence.
\nLess, less:<\/p>\n
pare away
\nwords, thoughts, images, and sounds.
\nPare away feelings, and the
\nself, go well
\npast Pound.<\/p>\n
Pare away
\nuntil nothing is left but
\ntruth. And if truth is gone too,
\nnothingness
\nis fine.<\/p>\n
I wrote back:
\nI like the shortest
\none best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A friend writes: Which poem do you like best? And he mentions Ezra Pound, who said that less is more. I guess I like the shorter one the best. I want to sense the holes in existence. Less, less: pare away words, thoughts, images, and sounds. Pare away feelings, and the self, go well past … Continue reading “The poem that you like best”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","tag-ezra-pound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}