{"id":6737,"date":"2021-11-15T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T10:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6737"},"modified":"2021-11-16T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:48:31","slug":"robert-hampson-piazza-dei-signori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6737\/robert-hampson-piazza-dei-signori\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hampson: Piazza dei Signori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Top Dog 3)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">Piazza dei Signori<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">I think Beatrice has stood me up again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">blame the juice blame the hip-hop beat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">blame the bells of the <em>Torre dei Lamberti<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">never doubt my faith nor my mournful steadfastness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">the sentence of death set upon my exiled head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">the ladder that offered access to paradise<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">the statue erected at mid night in the square<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">these possible futures evaded or fulfilled<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">the sick man changes his posture to ease his pain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">may misfortune befall all those who serve tyrants<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">my lines are free why should all end at Ravenna<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">a new life beckons the new world calls<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">come hangmen come vultures tomorrow I\u2019ll write<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">my liturgy of love in the Chelsea Hotel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Robert Hampson was Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is currently Research Fellow at the London University Institute for English Studies. During the 70s he co-edited (with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry) the magazine\u00a0<em>Alembic<\/em>\u00a0which, among other things, was instrumental in introducing North American LANGUAGE poetry to England. More recently, he has edited another poetry magazine, purge. He also co-edited (with Peter Barry)\u00a0<em>New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible<\/em>. His collections of poetry include:\u00a0<em>Degrees of Addiction, A Necessary Displacement, A City at War, Seaport<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>C for Security<\/em>. His selected poems,\u00a0<em>Assembled Fugitives<\/em>, was published by Stride in 2000.Covodes 1-19 will be published by Artery editions later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Click here to go back to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7392\/contributors-and-links-to-pages-4\/\">Contributors and Links to Pages 1 &#8211; 4<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Top Dog 3) Piazza dei Signori &nbsp; I think Beatrice has stood me up again blame the juice blame the hip-hop beat blame the bells of the Torre dei Lamberti never doubt my faith nor my mournful steadfastness the sentence of death set upon my exiled head the ladder that offered access to paradise the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[62,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images-2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1KF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}