{"id":4673,"date":"2020-12-02T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:37:53","slug":"660-song-of-the-sleepless-francisco-brines-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/660-song-of-the-sleepless-francisco-brines-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"660 | SONG OF THE SLEEPLESS | FRANCISCO BRINES, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ithaca-660-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"ithaca 660\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ithaca-660-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ithaca-660-200x155.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ithaca-660.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Painting by Francisco Lozano, Spain<br \/>\nCover of the book \u201cThe Noise of the World\u201d Poems by Francisco Brines<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Song of the Sleepless<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is still night and the cock crows.<br \/>\nAnd so he does night after night.<br \/>\nAnd each night I wait for his crowing.<br \/>\nBaleful is the shriek of the cock.<br \/>\nAcrid is the light as the cock cracks the night.<br \/>\nI grope into the dark and listen to the cock.<br \/>\n\u201cYou have lost another night,\u201d says the rooster.<br \/>\nUntil there will be neither cock nor night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Autumn of Roses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Already, you live in the season of the time left behind:<br \/>\nYou named it the autumn of roses.<br \/>\nInhale and be enticed by it. And listen,<br \/>\nwhen the sky fades, to the silence of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Francisco Brines<\/strong>, Oliva, Spain 1932,<\/p>\n<p><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">From: \u201c<strong><em>El ruido del mundo<\/em><\/strong> (The Noise of the World\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">POINT Editions 1998<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Francisco Lozano, Spain Cover of the book \u201cThe Noise of the World\u201d Poems by Francisco Brines \u00a0 Song of the Sleepless &nbsp; It is still night and the cock crows. And so he does night after night. And each night I wait for his crowing. Baleful is the shriek of the cock. Acrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673"}],"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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}