{"id":551,"date":"2014-05-05T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=551"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:25","slug":"my-favorite-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/05\/05\/my-favorite-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"May 5 &#8211; Mary-Catherine Harrison &#8211; this week&#8217;s guest editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Father Staudenmaier for inviting me to guest curate the Mission and Identity Poetry listserv. It might be difficult to choose readings for the rest of the week, but the first is easy.<br \/>\n<strong>Monday May 5th, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\nEveryone should have a favorite poem.<br \/>\nMine is one that works equally well in moments of sadness and joy. We included it on our wedding program and the birth announcements of our two daughters. I expect one of them will reference it somehow when I die.<br \/>\nRaymond Carver wrote \u201cLate Fragment\u201d soon before he died of lung cancer at the age of fifty. It is the last poem in his final book.<br \/>\nHe called it a fragment, but to me it is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLate Fragment\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd did you get what<br \/>\nyou wanted from this life, even so?<br \/>\nI did.<br \/>\nAnd what did you want?<br \/>\nTo call myself beloved, to feel myself<br \/>\nbeloved on the earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Did-You-Get-What-You-Wanted.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-552\" alt=\"Did-You-Get-What-You-Wanted\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Did-You-Get-What-You-Wanted.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Did-You-Get-What-You-Wanted.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Did-You-Get-What-You-Wanted-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nMary-Catherine Harrison, Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Father Staudenmaier for inviting me to guest curate the Mission and Identity Poetry listserv. It might be difficult to choose readings for the rest of the week, but the first is easy. Monday May 5th, 2014 Everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/05\/05\/my-favorite-poem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}