{"id":4830,"date":"2017-06-22T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:42:44","slug":"romantic-kwame-dawes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"ROMANTIC – Kwame Dawes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish he wouldn\u2019t say \u201cNapoli\u201d as if we
\nall should know where he means,
\nand what it means that he has been there;
\n 
\nI wish he would say \u201cDetroit\u201d or \u201cPortmore\u201d
\nand then go on to talk about what
\nis lost when a man loses his woman
\n 
\nto the ailments that come between
\nthem, turning them both into lies,
\none a hero, a suffering, noble hero
\n 
\nwho people adore for his selfishness,
\nthe other offering nothing but the
\nreason for pity and regret, and maybe
\n 
\nthis is how romance is defined in words,
\nhow we pause before the end and enjoy
\nthe silence of a room before last words.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"headshot,Kwame Dawes is the author of nineteen books of poetry and numerous other books\u00a0of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies. His latest collection, Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems<\/em> (Copper Canyon), appeared in 2013. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the\u00a0University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of
\nthe Calabash International Literary Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish he wouldn\u2019t say \u201cNapoli\u201d as if we all should know where he means, and what it means that he has been there;   I wish he would say \u201cDetroit\u201d or \u201cPortmore\u201d and then go on to talk about what is lost when a man loses his woman   to the ailments that come [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-wet-iris-by-pamela-hughes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}