{"id":2927,"date":"2016-10-14T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T07:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:06:19","slug":"citizen-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/citizen-cane\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-453-Citizen-Cane-Karin-Kiwus-1.jpg\" alt=\"foto-ithaca-453-citizen-cane-karin-kiwus\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-453-Citizen-Cane-Karin-Kiwus-1.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-453-Citizen-Cane-Karin-Kiwus-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto-ITHACA-453-Citizen-Cane-Karin-Kiwus-1-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 18pt;\">Citizen Cane<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">Long was every day<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">and the snow<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">the light of my soft sky<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">and the cold<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">the blood of my ardent skin<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">and the game<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">the garden of my crazy joy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">Then it never turned again into summer<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\"> years have passed in draughty houses<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">controlled by other persons clocks<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\"> at desks with superficial papers<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">with false words in cold cigarette smoke<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">Occasionally I take groping<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">the glass globe and reverse<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">silently for myself the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">my frozen earth<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">my winter eye<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\">blinded by snow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"> Karin Kiwus<\/span><\/strong> (Germany, 1942 &#8211; )<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Painting: Werner Berges<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Citizen Cane<\/em><\/strong><em> \/\/Lang war jeder Tag\/und der Schnee\/das Licht meines weichen Himmels\/und die K\u00e4lte\/das Blut meiner gl\u00fchenden Haut\/und das Spiel\/der Garten meiner tollw\u00fctigen Heiterkeit\/\/Danach ist es nie\/Sommer geworden\/Jahre sind vergangen in zugigen H\u00e4usern\/nach den Uhren anderer\/an Schreibtischen mit fl\u00fcchtigen Papieren\/mit falschen W\u00f6rtern in kalten Zigarettenrauch\/\/Manchmal noch nehme ich tastend\/die Glaskugel auf und kehre\/still f\u00fcr mich die Welt um\/meinen erfrorenen Erdball\/mein Winterauge\/blind vor Schnee<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Cane Long was every day and the snow the light of my soft sky and the cold the blood of my ardent skin and the game the garden of my crazy joy Then it never turned again into summer years have passed in draughty houses controlled by other persons clocks at desks with superficial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}