{"id":9035,"date":"2025-07-31T23:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9035"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:03:00","slug":"sievers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9035","title":{"rendered":"Sievers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>William Bonfiglio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In cell after cell, he captures again\u00a0<br>the gothic arch-barns in muted hues,<br>the correction houses near G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Eight rows of two panels, a line, and then<br>another row of three panels, askew:\u00a0<br>in cell after cell, he captures again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Before, he wove warp and weft like a wren.<br>These slivers were barely combed when fed through<br>the correction houses near G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Not once does he vary his scale or lens,<br>but holds his perspective, a hostage view.<br>In cell after cell he captures again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">a world that gives nothing to violent men,<br>for their welfare and ours remanded to\u00a0\u00a0<br>the correction houses near G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For what could it be if not violence when,<br>filling one sheet, he commences anew:<br>in cell after cell, he captures again<br>the correction houses near G\u00f6ttingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>WILLIAM BONFIGLIO<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has been awarded a Pearl Hogrefe Grant in Creative Writing Recognition Award, the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, and has appeared in\u00a0<em>Gulf Coast, New Letters, PRISM international,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere. This is from a series of poems responding to visual art created by institutionalized patients and collected by German physician Hans Prinzhorn in the early 20th century. Prinzhorn designated such works &#8220;Artistry of the Mentally Ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Bonfiglio In cell after cell, he captures again\u00a0the gothic arch-barns in muted hues,the correction houses near G\u00f6ttingen. Eight rows of two panels, a line, and thenanother row of three panels, askew:\u00a0in cell after cell, he captures again. Before, he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=9035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9030,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9035","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2lJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9035\/revisions\/9050"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}