{"id":625,"date":"2012-01-07T13:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/?p=625"},"modified":"2012-01-07T13:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:38:27","slug":"erin-moure-on-letting-writing-change-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/2012\/01\/07\/erin-moure-on-letting-writing-change-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Er\u00edn Moure on Letting Writing Change Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing difficult in what I do in writing, or in my poetry.\u00a0 In the head of the reader who can\u2019t let go of their own certainties, there could be, I surmise, a struggle at times in reading my work.\u00a0 My work provokes their struggle, and on purpose, at times.\u00a0 But the difficulty is not <em>in<\/em> my poetry.\u00a0 Just as my difficulty with carpentry is not <em>in<\/em> carpentry!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think we have to allow writing to change us.\u00a0 Even to learn to read at all, we have to let writing change us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address>This statement by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/canadianwomenpoets\/Moure.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Er\u00edn Moure<\/a> is a portion of her answer to a question about accessibility in poetry, posed her by <a href=\"http:\/\/megankaminski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Kaminski<\/a>.<\/address>\n<h6>Megan Kaminski. \u00a0\u201cInterview with Er\u00edn Moure.\u201d\u00a0 <em>Denver Quarterly<\/em> 46:2 (2012): 54-60.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing difficult in what I do in writing, or in my poetry.\u00a0 In the head of the reader who can\u2019t let go of their own certainties, there could be, I surmise, a struggle at times in reading my work.\u00a0 My work provokes their struggle, and on purpose, at times.\u00a0 But the difficulty is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/031454a.netsolhost.com\/inquire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}