{"id":4977,"date":"2013-11-27T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2013-11-27T12:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:40:48","slug":"the-story-behind-the-poems-plus-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4977-the-story-behind-the-poems-plus-audio.html","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Poems (Plus Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/story-behind-three-poems-robert-peake\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/11\/sunfish-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"the sunfish, around whom \/ jellyfish revolve like planets\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4978\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/11\/sunfish-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/11\/sunfish-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/11\/sunfish.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Every poem begins somewhere. <em>Compose Journal<\/em> asked me to write <a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/story-behind-three-poems-robert-peake\/\" target=\"_blank\">a few words<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/articles\/robert-peake-three-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\">three poems<\/a> that appeared in their <a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/issues\/fall-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn issue<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It was fun to recall where they first took shape&#8211;from a Belgian Inn in the Cotswolds to a train platform in London, drawing on figures as different as Neruda, Proust, and Feynman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Modern science is showing us that reading poems, unlike reading an instruction manual, lights up the parts of our brain that deal with music, memory, and introspection. I suppose you could say it is from those places in particular that these three poems emerged. <span class=\"text-info\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/story-behind-three-poems-robert-peake\/\" target=\"_blank\">more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/story-behind-three-poems-robert-peake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/122132509&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/122133167&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/122133097&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<noframes><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tags\/compose%20literary%20journal\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to audio recordings of the poems here<\/a><\/noframes>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/composejournal.com\/articles\/robert-peake-three-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the text of the poems here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every poem begins somewhere. Compose Journal asked me to write a few words about the three poems that appeared in their Autumn issue. It was fun to recall where they first took shape&#8211;from a Belgian Inn in the Cotswolds to a train platform in London, drawing on figures as different as Neruda, Proust, and Feynman. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4977-the-story-behind-the-poems-plus-audio.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Poems (Plus Audio)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,5],"tags":[869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}