{"id":796,"date":"2013-12-02T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-12-01T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T01:37:24","slug":"in-the-heart-of-night-by-changming-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"In the Heart of Night by Changming Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-799\" alt=\"1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096-261x300.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096-261x300.jpg 261w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096-893x1024.jpg 893w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1024px-Hieronymus_Bosch_096.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for now, they have all stopped<br \/>\npretending to be more than chimpanzees<br \/>\nstruggling ferociously for power, sex, fame or money<\/p>\n<p>lying seemingly still on each padded shelf<br \/>\nunder the roof of hardened darkness<br \/>\nis a bleeding devil<br \/>\ntightly enclosed within a decent<br \/>\nhuman shape, as if in a vast morgue<\/p>\n<p>high above them is squatting a bloated serpent<br \/>\nwith a body of billion eyes all viciously open<br \/>\nto watch for so many tiny dragons<br \/>\nchasing and collecting the deformed soul<br \/>\ntrying desperately to escape<br \/>\nform every fleshy casket<\/p>\n<p><em>Changming Yuan, 7-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China but currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-publishes Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press. With a PhD in English, Yuan has recently been interviewed by [PANK], and had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Reviewand 769 other literary journals\/anthologies across 28 countries. In 2013, Yuan has been bitten by 3 poisonous snakes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; for now, they have all stopped pretending to be more than chimpanzees struggling ferociously for power, sex, fame or money lying seemingly still on each padded shelf under the roof of hardened darkness is a bleeding devil tightly enclosed within a decent human shape, as if in a vast morgue high above them is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}