{"id":3448,"date":"2016-07-29T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:14:00","slug":"poems-that-make-grown-women-cry-features-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/07\/29\/poems-that-make-grown-women-cry-features-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems That Make Grown Women Cry features Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Women\/dp\/1501121855?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3449\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-29-at-8.02.56-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-29 at 8.02.56 AM\" width=\"169\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>An anthology on <strong><em>Poems That Make Grown Women Cry: 100 Women on the Words That Move Them<\/em><\/strong>, edited by Anthony and Ben Holden and\u00a0published this past spring, includes an essay by former <em>New Yorker<\/em> editor Tina Brown on John Updike&#8217;s poem, &#8220;Perfection Wasted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book is a follow-up to the father-and-son team&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Poems That Make Grown Men Cry<\/em>. For the most recent volume they worked with Amnesty Internation and asked the same question of 100 &#8220;remarkable women&#8221;: &#8220;What poem has moved you to tears?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Poems-That-Make-Grown-Women\/dp\/1501121855?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">Amazon.com link<\/a>. You can read &#8220;Perfection Wasted&#8221; on Garrison Keillor&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/prairiehome.publicradio.org\/programs\/2009\/01\/31\/scripts\/updike.shtml\">A Prairie Home Companion<\/a><\/em> post from Jan. 31, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anthology on Poems That Make Grown Women Cry: 100 Women on the Words That Move Them, edited by Anthony and Ben Holden and\u00a0published this past spring, includes an essay by former New Yorker editor Tina Brown on John Updike&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/07\/29\/poems-that-make-grown-women-cry-features-updike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}