{"id":4166,"date":"2019-11-12T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:56:03","slug":"before-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/before-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"BEFORE THE FLOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4167 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-600x431.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-200x144.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany-140x100.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ITHACA-601-Before-the-Flood-G\u00fcnter-Kunert-Germany.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BEFORE THE FLOOD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the evening trees<br \/>\nfigures of pure air<br \/>\nelongated like cries<br \/>\nfrom afar,<br \/>\nand I wonder<br \/>\nif this is the farewell<br \/>\nor any other sign<br \/>\nof the end.<br \/>\nBecause the earth is sinking<br \/>\nbehind its horizon<br \/>\nnothing works anymore.<br \/>\nThat is clear,<br \/>\nand what continues to exist<br \/>\nis a whimsical reflection<br \/>\nfrom all of us,<br \/>\njust for a while . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>G\u00dcNTER KUNERT (GERMANY,<\/strong> 1929-2019)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>VOR DER SINTFLUT\/\/In den Abendb\u00e4umen\/Gebilde aus purer Luft\/langgezogen wie Rufe\/aus weiter Ferne\/und ich frage mich\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>ob das der Abschied sei\/oder sonst ein Zeichen\/des Endes\/\/Denn die Erde versinkt\/hinter ihrem Horizont\/nichts geht mehr auf<\/em><br \/>\n<em>das ist klar\/und es bleibt\/ein fahriger Widerschein\/von uns allen\/noch eine Weile\/\/bestehen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEFORE THE FLOOD In the evening trees figures of pure air elongated like cries from afar, and I wonder if this is the farewell or any other sign of the end. Because the earth is sinking behind its horizon nothing works anymore. That is clear, and what continues to exist is a whimsical reflection from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/4166"}],"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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}