{"id":762,"date":"2006-11-01T02:33:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2006\/11\/01\/poetry-emerging-one-word-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T02:33:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T06:33:27","slug":"poetry-emerging-one-word-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2006\/11\/01\/poetry-emerging-one-word-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry, emerging one word at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lovely project around Cambridge has poetry encoded in numeric code.  When the poem is good, this leads to a lovely sensation of just learning to read for the first time while decoding the poem, if you start from the beginning; so the meaning of the poem settles in one word at a time.<\/p>\n

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I also have to thank this ‘cambridge codex’ project for choosing an awesome name<\/a> (being partial to codices myself), and for introducing me to a delightful caesura-filled sonnet by Danielle Georges.<\/p>\n


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<\/span><\/span>how
\n to play godzilla<\/b>: imagine<\/font><\/strong>
\n Danielle Legros Georges<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

each
\n sand-grain on the baseball field: a man
\n woman, or child; each grass-blade: a building,
\n a bank, a school before the war; your hands
\n turned reptilian; your dorsal fin filling in;
\n each scale a stunning; grey plate of armor.
\n Shake yourself from the sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lovely project around Cambridge has poetry encoded in numeric code.  When the poem is good, this leads to a lovely sensation of just learning to read for the first time while decoding the poem, if you start from the beginning; so the meaning of the poem settles in one word at a time. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-ci","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}