{"id":2544,"date":"2013-02-27T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2013-02-27T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:10:36","slug":"the-200-year-old-avant-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"The 200-year-old avant-garde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2545\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/portrait-inside-my-head-and-to-show-and-to-tell\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2545\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2545\" alt=\"lopate\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lopate.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lopate.jpg 303w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lopate-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Lopate. Photograph by Jill Krementz<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When I went to college, I was surrounded by people who were interested in William Burroughs, John Ashbery, Beckett and post-Beckett. The whole sensibility was, \u201cBeckett has done this, now how can we advance his heroic move?\u201d I thought, \u201cWell, maybe I\u2019ll read Henry Fielding.\u201d If I need to experience avant\u2011garde, I\u2019ll read\u00a0<em>Don Quixote<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Tristram Shandy<\/em>. \u00a0&#8211;Philip Lopate in <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/portrait-inside-my-head-and-to-show-and-to-tell\/#sthash.yx83i49k.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">Harper&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to college, I was surrounded by people who were interested in William Burroughs, John Ashbery, Beckett and post-Beckett. 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