{"id":6090,"date":"2015-05-29T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?page_id=6090"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:07:23","slug":"remember-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/remember-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Corner, June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry on body, desire and pleasure from Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"wp-image-6091 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cpc-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"cpc\" width=\"271\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cpc-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cpc.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;Body, remember not only how much you were loved,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> not only the beds you lay on,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> but also those desires that glowed openly<\/em><br \/>\n<em> in eyes that looked at you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> trembled for you in the voices\u2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em> only some chance obstacle frustrated them.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Now that it\u2019s all finally in the past,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> it seems almost as if you gave yourself<\/em><br \/>\n<em> to those desires too\u2014how they glowed,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> remember, in eyes that looked at you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Penguin publishers introduced the <em>Little Black Classics<\/em> for their 80th birthday. As their website notes, &#8220;<em>Little Black Classics<\/em> celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinclassics.co.uk\/books\/remember-body\/9780141397474\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The author&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavafy.com\">website<\/a> carries some of his poems!<\/p>\n<p>Pic Source: Penguin U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry on body, desire and pleasure from Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933). &#8216;Body, remember not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6090","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6090\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}