{"id":31557,"date":"2017-05-09T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=31557"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:30:57","slug":"my-favorite-anti-semite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=31557","title":{"rendered":"\u201eMy Favorite Anti-Semite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osip_Mandelstam\"><strong>Osip Mandelstam<\/strong><\/a>, the Jewish Soviet poet murdered by Stalin\u2019s government, wrote of the USSR with noir pride: \u201cPoetry is respected only in this country\u2014people kill for it. There\u2019s no place where more people are killed for it.\u201d Having grown up in the Soviet and freshly post-Soviet Ukraine, I knew how true Mandelstam\u2019s words were. In America, much of the poetry I encountered was light, elegant entertainment. The token New Yorker poems went well with their cartoons\u2014and aimed for a similar affect. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/books\/159747\/amiri-baraka\"><strong>Amiri Baraka<\/strong><\/a>, it occurred to me, came as close to Mandelstam\u2019s dictum as one can get in contemporary America\u2014for a \u201ccareer\u201d poet, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw\"><strong>Somebody Blew Up America<\/strong><\/a>\u201d would have been professional suicide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/books\/159747\/amiri-baraka\"><strong>Jake Marmer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\u201eMy Favorite Anti-Semite: How Amiri Baraka inspired me\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUEu-pG1HWw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Zrzut-ekranu-2017-05-09-o-08.27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Zrzut-ekranu-2017-05-09-o-08.27.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Zrzut-ekranu-2017-05-09-o-08.27-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ooops.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Zrzut-ekranu-2017-05-09-o-08.27-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osip Mandelstam, the Jewish Soviet poet murdered by Stalin\u2019s government, wrote of the USSR with noir pride: \u201cPoetry is respected only in this country\u2014people kill for it. There\u2019s no place where more people are killed for it.\u201d Having grown up in the Soviet and freshly post-Soviet Ukraine, I knew how true Mandelstam\u2019s words were. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2134,16,405],"tags":[5179,2640,5181,5182,5180,5178,380,401],"class_list":["post-31557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sztuka-miesa","category-poglady","category-the-best-of-this-old-mundp-page","tag-amiri-baraka","tag-cia","tag-jake-marmer","tag-osip-mandelstam","tag-rob-brown","tag-somebody-blew-up-america","tag-usa","tag-xxi-wiek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31563,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31557\/revisions\/31563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}