{"id":103,"date":"2015-09-16T02:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T02:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:37:30","slug":"brisby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/brisby\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LOST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>i wrote a poem today <\/strong><br>\n<strong>but the guard <\/strong><br>\n<strong>would not let <\/strong><br>\n<strong>it <\/strong><br>\n<strong>thru the gate. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>somewhere in a city <\/strong><br>\n<strong>i will never visit <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a time span <\/strong><br>\n<strong>that will not return <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a part of me <\/strong><br>\n<strong>is floating.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart Brisby. <em>A Death in America, or, The Life Expectancy of Your Nearest Living Relative Depends on How Fast You Fill Out This Form<\/em> (1986)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Brisby_full1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Brisby_full1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover to A Death in America, or, the life expectancy of your nearest living relative depends on how fast you fill out this form. Poems. Stewart Brisby.\" class=\"wp-image-173\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Brisby_full2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Brisby_full2.jpg\" alt=\"Introduction and reviews\" class=\"wp-image-174\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOST i wrote a poem today but the guard would not let it thru the gate. somewhere in a city i will never visit a time span that will not return a part of me is floating. Stewart Brisby. A Death in America, or, The Life Expectancy of Your Nearest Living Relative Depends on How <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/brisby\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Brisby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}