{"id":2503,"date":"2012-02-10T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:56","slug":"just-wondering-do-you-have-to-be-a-poet-to-edit-poetry-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/10\/just-wondering-do-you-have-to-be-a-poet-to-edit-poetry-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Just wondering: Do you have to be a poet to edit poetry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Don Paterson, an editor and a poet, claim[s] that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A non-poet can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a line-edit on a poem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; it is essential for an editor to be a poet, too.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schmidt, the editor of Carcanet Press and <em>PN Review<\/em>, added that the job can be tricky when grappling with the work of someone from a different culture. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re publishing a Zimbabwean poet or a poet from India or New Zealand, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll speak a language different from your own,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, adding, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an issue between genders as well.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Both these points are slightly disquieting. <strong>If only poets can edit the work of another, does that mean that only poets fully comprehend the work?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2012\/02\/contemporary-poetry\">Contemporary poetry: Do you have to be a poet to edit poetry? | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Paterson, an editor and a poet, claim[s] that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A non-poet can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a line-edit on a poem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; it is essential for an editor to be a poet, too.   Do you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[567,568,569,17,41],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-editing","tag-editors","tag-hmmm","tag-poetry","tag-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}