{"id":7803,"date":"2022-12-01T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:34:54","slug":"allen-fisher-for-john-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7803\/allen-fisher-for-john-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Fisher: For John James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7804\" style=\"width: 685px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36.jpeg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7804\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36.jpeg 2147w, https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36-79x102.jpeg 79w, https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36-214x278.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36-768x996.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Wandering-for-John-after-Friedrich-2022-11-08-17.39.36-339x440.jpeg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wandering for John, after Friedrich 2022-11-08<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">For John James, after\u00a0H\u00f6lderlin<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Unforgettably came, astonishing<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hot, that plenitude. For we lack<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Song, which frees us<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">now we are far apart<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">sharer of my sorrows<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And trees surrounded us with fragrances<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Came over us, dumbfounding<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hot is wealth. For we lack<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Song that loosens the mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">where we went separate ways<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">sharer of my sufferings<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And there was fragrance of trees around us<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In time for lunch, speechless<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hot that encounter. For we lack<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Song that lifts our intentions<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">until we met again<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Distant, in the undergrowth, and trees<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Were all around us with their scent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Allen Fisher, poet, painter, art historian,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">publisher-editor Spanner, co-publisher Aloes Books.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 currently paintings in group show at Courtyard, Hereford.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 paintings and performance Kunsthall Oslo, October-November 2022.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 show and performances at tactileBOSCH, Cardiff with Penny Hallas and Lyn Davies, 2021.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 www.allenfisher.co.uk<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 recent publication proceeds in the garden, after Dante\u2019s Paradiso (paintings), 2022;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Black Pond (paintings and poetry), 2020;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Imperfect Fit (essays on Aesthetics, Facture &amp; Perception, University of Alabama);<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">NO LONGER ALONE (poetry with photographs by Paige Mitchell).<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">PLACE (1971-1981) and GRAVITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SHAPE (1983-2007) available in a complete editions from Reality Street Editions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Click here to go back to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/8008\/contributors-and-links-to-pages-1-4-4\/\">Contributors and Links to Pages 1 &#8211; 4<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For John James, after\u00a0H\u00f6lderlin \u00a0 \u00a0Unforgettably came, astonishing Hot, that plenitude. For we lack Song, which frees us now we are far apart sharer of my sorrows And trees surrounded us with fragrances \u00a0 Came over us, dumbfounding Hot is wealth. For we lack Song that loosens the mind where we went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"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":[68,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-21R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803"}],"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=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}