{"id":39,"date":"2019-02-05T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2019-02-05T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:41:21","slug":"phil-levine-they-feed-they-lion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/phil-levine-they-feed-they-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Levine, &#8220;They Feed They Lion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter,<br \/>\nOut of black bean and wet slate bread,<br \/>\nOut of the acids of rage, the candor of tar,<br \/>\nOut of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies,<br \/>\nThey Lion grow.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the gray hills<br \/>\nOf industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride,<br \/>\nWest Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties,<br \/>\nMothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps,<br \/>\nOut of the bones\u2019 need to sharpen and the muscles\u2019 to stretch,<br \/>\nThey Lion grow.<\/p>\n<p>Earth is eating trees, fence posts,<br \/>\nGutted cars, earth is calling in her little ones,<br \/>\n\u201cCome home, Come home!\u201d From pig balls,<br \/>\nFrom the ferocity of pig driven to holiness,<br \/>\nFrom the furred ear and the full jowl come<br \/>\nThe repose of the hung belly, from the purpose<br \/>\nThey Lion grow.<\/p>\n<p>From the sweet glues of the trotters<br \/>\nCome the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower<br \/>\nOf the hams the thorax of caves,<br \/>\nFrom \u201cBow Down\u201d come \u201cRise Up,\u201d<br \/>\nCome they Lion from the reeds of shovels,<br \/>\nThe grained arm that pulls the hands,<br \/>\nThey Lion grow.<\/p>\n<p>From my five arms and all my hands,<br \/>\nFrom all my white sins forgiven, they feed,<br \/>\nFrom my car passing under the stars,<br \/>\nThey Lion, from my children inherit,<br \/>\nFrom the oak turned to a wall, they Lion,<br \/>\nFrom they sack and they belly opened<br \/>\nAnd all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth<br \/>\nThey feed they Lion and he comes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495sp19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}