{"id":3885,"date":"2020-03-10T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3885"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:48:11","slug":"little-black-train","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?product=little-black-train","title":{"rendered":"Little Black Train"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like a railroad lantern, Jordan Smith\u2019s poems light the region between the workings of chance and the routes that bind us to memory. Through the years and a brace of books, Smith has led readers into the presence of a great question: \u201cWho would have thought the broken might contrive such beauty?\u201d It is a beautiful question, one that issues as if from the instruments of old music. He inquires with such brilliant artistry, that each poem leads us to a further place, one we had not foreseen. As he puts it,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>what I wanted was a learned, an unearned grace<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where between word and world the difference was as slight<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As a gesture not yet begun,a singer\u2019s voice in memory, praising<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Artifice, as naturally as that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have often thought about the courtesy implicit of the best poets to invite us into imaginary rooms in our own minds. Smith takes us time and again, leaving us grateful for the true intelligence we find there. \u2013 David Rigsbee, author of Not Alone in My Dancing<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3590,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[190],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3885","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"authors-jordan-smith","7":"product_cat-uncategorized","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}