{"id":22149,"date":"2013-05-10T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22149"},"modified":"2013-05-10T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T07:37:57","slug":"history-doesnt-rhyme-it-swears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=22149","title":{"rendered":"History doesn’t rhyme — it swears"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — finding both rhyme and obscenity here, to be honest — San Salvador then, Mexico today ]
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**<\/p>\n

I once had the privilege of hearing Carolyn Forch\u00e9<\/strong> read her poems. <\/p>\n

You can read and hear her reading the prose poem from which that excerpt is taken here<\/a> — for richer background on her experiences in El Salvador, see her extraordinary essay El Salvador: An Aide-M\u00e9moire<\/a> in Granta, or find a copy of The American Poetry Review<\/em> for July\/August 1981, pp. 3-7.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Carolyn Forch\u00e9<\/strong>, The Country Between Us<\/a>\n
  • Sunil S<\/strong>, El Narco and the Jihad<\/a> in Pragati<\/em>, illus credit: El cartel de San Luis<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    I know, in the title of this post I’m conflating a quote attributed to<\/a> Mark Twain<\/strong>, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes”, with Bob Dylan<\/strong><\/a>‘s “Money doesn’t talk, it swears”. So be it.<\/p>\n

    As Dylan also once said<\/a>: “I said that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — finding both rhyme and obscenity here, to be honest — San Salvador then, Mexico today ] . ** I once had the privilege of hearing Carolyn Forch\u00e9 read her poems. You can read and hear her reading the prose poem from which that excerpt is taken here — for richer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,425,51,583,573,480,823,741,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-government","category-history","category-latin-america","category-mexico","category-music","category-narcoterror","category-poetry","category-recommended-reading","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22171,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions\/22171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}