{"id":86,"date":"2021-09-14T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2021-09-28T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:55:53","slug":"dear-darkness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/dear-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/09\/Dear-Darkness-by-Kevin-Young-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Kevin Young's poetry collection, Dear Darkness\" class=\"wp-image-62\" width=\"171\" height=\"256\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dear Darkness <\/em>(2008) \u2013 Kevin Young\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dear Darkness<\/em>&nbsp;paints a beautifully solemn picture dedicated to African American culture in a collection of poems that remain personal yet universal. Pieces such as \u201cShort End Blues\u201d (57), \u201cOde to My Father\u2019s Feet\u201d (77), and \u201cOn Being the Only Black Person at the Johnny Paycheck Concert\u201d (155) illustrate the simplicity of everyday life in complex and sometimes humorous ways. These details are told from one man, but the stories that house them can relate to many who read it.&nbsp; \u2013Jalen White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Darkness (2008) \u2013 Kevin Young\u2019s&nbsp;Dear Darkness&nbsp;paints a beautifully solemn picture dedicated to African American culture in a collection of poems that remain personal yet universal. Pieces such as \u201cShort End Blues\u201d (57), \u201cOde to My Father\u2019s Feet\u201d (77), and \u201cOn Being the Only Black Person at the Johnny Paycheck Concert\u201d (155) illustrate the simplicity <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/dear-darkness\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Dear Darkness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/newvistas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}