{"id":206,"date":"2012-12-04T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccspecialcollections.wordpress.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:23","slug":"a-looooooooooong-merwin-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/12\/04\/a-looooooooooong-merwin-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A looooooooooong Merwin poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccspecialcollections.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/04\/a-looooooooooong-merwin-poem\/merwin1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/merwin1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"merwin1\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/merwin1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/merwin1-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/merwin1-624x335.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our anonymous donor surprised us this month with a gift of the Ninja Press edition of W.S. Merwin&#8217;s <em>The Real World of Manuel C\u00f3rdova<\/em> (1995). When stretched out, this accordion-style production measures fifteen feet long. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prbm.com\/FeaturedBooks\/_Merwin-Ninja.php\">dealer&#8217;s description<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to sharing all fifteen feet with book arts and poetry students and other researchers in the coming years, perhaps alongside our similarly-stretchable two editions of Carlos Oquendo de Amat&#8217;s <em>Five Meters of Poems<\/em> (one from <a href=\"http:\/\/uglyducklingpresse.org\/cube\/index.php?_a=viewProd&amp;productId=91\">Ugly Duckling Presse<\/a> and one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionreese.com\/suenoroad\/turkey-press\/turkey-press-1989-1980-publications\/five-meters-of-poems\/\">Turkey Press<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our anonymous donor surprised us this month with a gift of the Ninja Press edition of W.S. Merwin&#8217;s The Real World of Manuel C\u00f3rdova (1995). When stretched out, this accordion-style production measures fifteen feet long. Here&#8217;s the dealer&#8217;s description. We look forward to sharing all fifteen feet with book arts and poetry students and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-3k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}