{"id":100104,"date":"2020-06-30T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=100104"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T06:29:37","slug":"poembrut99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/poembrut99\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Brut #99 &#8211; Uncle Alex (Trocchi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Aim \u00e9e Keeble.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dear-Jack-1-e1589114844311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dear-Jack-2-e1589114827725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dear-Jack-3-e1589114799546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dear-Jack-4-e1589114863541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"704\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neutralspaces.co\/aimeekeeble\/\">Aim \u00e9e Keeble<\/a> has her Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the David Black Agency. Aim \u00e9e lives in North Carolina with her dog Cowboy and is working on her first novel. She is the grand-niece of Beat writer and poet Alexander Trocchi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Trocchi has been called a deviant, a scoundrel, a genius, a monster. Semantics, words, letters organised in order to reveal a truth. He was all these things. He is, and will always be, my flesh and blood. The illustrative Cain to my Abel, something bigger and more powerful then me that will strike me down when I raise my body to match him, but I am grateful for the pairing. These poems are scales I have plucked from his Levithan hide. I have assembled them as best I can to show him as best I can. Here&#8217;s to you Alex, we&#8217;d be drinking whisky were you here but wait for me and we&#8217;ll be drinking starlight.<\/p>\n<p>In the 99th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by <strong>Aimee Keeble.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":100108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111788,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104\/revisions\/111788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}