{"id":44,"date":"2015-08-17T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/prac-crit-beatrice-garland\/"},"modified":"2015-08-17T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:09:07","slug":"prac-crit-beatrice-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/prac-crit-beatrice-garland\/","title":{"rendered":"Prac Crit &amp; Beatrice Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure data-orig-width=\"1105\" data-orig-height=\"374\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/062526cc47c9fadc1d00c4350dc13538\/tumblr_inline_nt4erfP93h1s2cvuu_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"1105\" data-orig-height=\"374\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>A reminder to myself that I also do critical writing! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praccrit.com\/essays\/the-academy-of-new-words-essay-by-jon-stone\/\">A short close reading of \u2018The Academy of New Words\u2019 by Beatrice Garland<\/a> appears in the latest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praccrit.com\/\">Prac Crit<\/a>, a rather slickly rendered online journal of poetry and criticism with a separate viewing pane for the subject of the critique alongside the critique itself.<\/p>\n<p>I was initially unsure about this when approached by the editors, Sarah Howe and Vidyan Ravinthiran &#8211; I\u2019ve written a lot of reviews in the past, of varying quality, but my approach tends to be quite &#8211; well, not close up. I talk more about groups of poems or patterns of poems, or better yet, try to identify and articulate the character of a whole book. In fact, the phrase\u00a0\u2018close reading\u2019 slightly scares me, since I\u2019ve always associated it with a very learned, academic approach to critical prose which requires a background in post-structural theory and god-knows-what-else.<\/p>\n<p>This is somewhat ironic, because the poem I evaluate in this essay features as its principle conceit the idea of an\u00a0\u2018academy\u2019 that is designed to have oversight and control of language but which rapidly becomes nothing more than a home to studious professors. I think that\u2019s ironic anyway. Is it? OK, maybe just coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder to myself that I also do critical writing! A short close reading of \u2018The Academy of New Words\u2019 by Beatrice Garland appears in the latest edition of Prac Crit, a rather slickly rendered online journal of poetry and criticism with a separate viewing pane for the subject of the critique alongside the critique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,233,78,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}