{"id":4661,"date":"2020-11-22T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T10:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2020-11-22T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T10:35:29","slug":"654-last-song-miguel-hernandez-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/654-last-song-miguel-hernandez-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"654 | Last song | Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ithaca-658-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poem Ithcaca 658\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ithaca-658-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ithaca-658-600x700.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ithaca-658-200x233.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ithaca-658.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cCobwebflowers\u201d poetry by Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez<br \/>\nCover painting by Siegfried Reich an der Stolpe, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Last Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted, not void:<br \/>\nmy house is painted<br \/>\nwith the color of great<br \/>\npassions and misfortunes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It will return from the wailing place<br \/>\nwhere it was carried<br \/>\nwith its deserted table,<br \/>\nwith its vacated bed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kisses will flower<br \/>\non the pillows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And wrapped around the bodies<br \/>\nthe sheet will elevate<br \/>\nits urgent creeper<br \/>\nnocturnal, perfumed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hatred will be amortized<br \/>\nbehind the window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The claw will be gentle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grant me the hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Spain <em>(Orihuela 1910 \u2013 Alicante 1942)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>from \u201cFlores de telara\u00f1as \u2013 Spinragbloemen\u201d, POINT Editions 1993<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCobwebflowers\u201d poetry by Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez Cover painting by Siegfried Reich an der Stolpe, Germany Last Song Painted, not void: my house is painted with the color of great passions and misfortunes. It will return from the wailing place where it was carried with its deserted table, with its vacated bed. Kisses will flower on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661"}],"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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}