{"id":7502,"date":"2019-03-27T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/nathaniel-farrell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:09:12","slug":"nathaniel-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/nathaniel-farrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-4.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-5.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-6.jpg 630w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-7.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/author_photo-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Nathaniel Farrell&nbsp;was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He is the author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uglyducklingpresse.org\/catalog\/browse\/item\/?pubID=626\">Lost Horizon&nbsp;(UDP 2019)<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; a long poem&nbsp;inspired by the American mall, interstate landscapes and suburban&nbsp;pastorals &mdash; and&nbsp;Newcomer&nbsp;(UDP 2014), a lyric personae poem narrated by an anonymous soldier&nbsp;and set in an undefined military campaign. &nbsp;He teaches college composition at Washington University in St. Louis and hosts a weekly experimental&nbsp;music program on 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. &nbsp;He holds a doctorate in English Literature from Columbia University in New York City.<br class=\"\" \/>An <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2019\/03\/poetry\/from-Lost-Horizon\">excerpt of Lost Horizon<\/a> was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2019\/03\/poetry\/from-Lost-Horizon\">Brooklyn Rail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8918 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-1.jpg 776w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-2.jpg 227w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-4.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-5.jpg 318w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Lost_Horizon-cover-6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking as a point of departure the retail utopia of the American mallscape &mdash; a composite of town square, garden and space station &mdash;&nbsp;Lost Horizon&nbsp;spirals out through&nbsp;interstate and rail to touch national parks, local attractions, truck stops, big box stores, strip malls, tattoo parlors, oil rigs. flower shops, and baggage claims. Throughout the&nbsp;incessant movement of the book-length poem, unbroken by stanzas or sections, Farrell privileges observation over judgment and seeks out the crossroads between cultural&nbsp;myth and brand image. The poem speaks from between the mall fountain and the wishing well, the Disney princess and Spenserian queen, the noble hero and the voyeur.&nbsp;Lost Horizon&nbsp;is a poem that catalogs and indexes the collision between fantasies of high and low.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8919\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NewcomerGIANT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NewcomerGIANT-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NewcomerGIANT-2.jpg 226w, https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NewcomerGIANT-3.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Farrell&nbsp;was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He is the author of&nbsp;Lost Horizon&nbsp;(UDP 2019)&nbsp;&mdash; a long poem&nbsp;inspired by the American mall, interstate landscapes and suburban&nbsp;pastorals &mdash; and&nbsp;Newcomer&nbsp;(UDP 2014), a lyric personae poem narrated by an anonymous soldier&nbsp;and set in an undefined military campaign. &nbsp;He teaches college composition at Washington University in St. Louis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}