{"id":74,"date":"2019-06-07T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T02:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:16:24","slug":"brenda-hillman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/essays\/brenda-hillman\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Hillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.chapman.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&amp;context=english_articles\">&#8220;Brenda Hillman&#8217;s Ecopoetic Playing&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A return to Winnicott, asking the ecopoetics community to consider the psychoanalytic insight that having an environment can, in itself, be existentially unsettling. How poetic playfulness can be a kind of development, or even progress, from this experience.<\/p>\n<p>Hillman was my teacher and gave me a strong word of advice: make room for the irrational in your poetry. As an idea of where I should work to be, given my temperament and values, nothing could have been less helpful. And holding myself to that expectation, in vogue for years, delayed my publishing for a few years. But thinking about the irrational, respecting it, allowing it to exist among other elements &#8212; very helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brenda Hillman&#8217;s Ecopoetic Playing&#8221; A return to Winnicott, asking the ecopoetics community to consider the psychoanalytic insight that having an environment can, in itself, be existentially unsettling. How poetic playfulness can be a kind of development, or even progress, from this experience. Hillman was my teacher and gave me a strong word of advice: make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}