{"id":104496,"date":"2016-11-03T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104496"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:13:29","slug":"on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"On Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/richard-howard-will-receive-2017-hadada-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we announced that Richard Howard will receive<\/a><\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review<em>\u2019s 2017 Hadada Award.\u00a0To celebrate, we\u2019re sharing<\/em><em>\u00a0\u201cOn Tour,\u201d a poem by Howard from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer 1956 issue<\/a>.<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is the movement that disturbs the line.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Thickening the form.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Turning into warm<br \/>\nCompression what had once been cold and fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Seen from down here, if only we remained. <br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 These hills are high:<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Driving on, the sky<br \/>\nImposes, and no longer can be trained<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By any structure of the seeming ground. <br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Landscape, I discover,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 As the car gains over<br \/>\nSomething that changes from a little mound<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To monstrous eminence before your eyes.<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Landscape can flaunt, can<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Fail like the heart of man:<br \/>\nAnd when you see the difference in size<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of cliffs we once considered at the bright<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Grass along their peak<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 And then saw from the bleak<br \/>\nExtremity of sand below, the sight<\/p>\n<p>Gives more than pause\u2014alas, it gives the slow<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Ruin of our hopes<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Fed upon the slopes<br \/>\nFrom where we\u2019ve been to where we want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, we announced that Richard Howard will receive\u00a0The Paris Review\u2019s 2017 Hadada Award.\u00a0To celebrate, we\u2019re sharing\u00a0\u201cOn Tour,\u201d a poem by Howard from our Summer 1956 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188],"tags":[12325,25538,19907,1526,2861,7881,3539,1447,165,2003,426,2716,15199],"class_list":["post-104496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archive","tag-awards","tag-cliffs","tag-from-the-archive","tag-hadada-prize","tag-history","tag-landscape","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-richard-howard","tag-the-paris-review","tag-tour","tag-traveling"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cOn Tour,\u201d a Poem by Richard Howard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Howard will receive our 2017 Hadada Prize. 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