{"id":1818,"date":"2026-04-12T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:07:18","slug":"correspondence-versus-connection-raymond-de-borja-reflects-on-language-poetry-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence Versus Connection: Raymond de Borja Reflects on Language, Poetry, and Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/correspondence-versus-connection-raymond-de-borja-reflects-on-language-poetry-and-friendship\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Correspondence Versus Connection: Raymond de Borja Reflects on Language, Poetry, and Friendship\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s26162.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/longform-banner-12.png\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">lithub.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Correspondence Versus Connection: Raymond de Borja Reflects on Language, Poetry, and Friendship<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">\u201cThings do not connect; they correspond,\u201d writes Jack Spicer in his letter to the dead Federico Garcia Lorca. Things do not connect; they correspond\u2014two independent clauses that echo recurring aspe\u2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}