{"id":5459,"date":"2022-04-08T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2022-04-08T05:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:43:55","slug":"724-first-song-miguel-hernandez-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/724-first-song-miguel-hernandez-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"724 | First song &#8211; Miguel Hernand\u00e9z, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5460 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-724-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-724-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-724-200x201.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Afbeelding-724.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting Antoni Miro<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>First Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The field has retreated<br \/>\nseeing it is man\u2019s<br \/>\nconvulsive assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What an abyss is laid bare<br \/>\nbetween the olive tree and man!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The animal that sings:<br \/>\nthe animal that can<br \/>\ncry and take root<br \/>\nrecalls its claws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Claws that it covered<br \/>\nwith smoothness and flowers,<br \/>\nbut which, in the end, he bares<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in all their cruelty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They crackle in my hands.<br \/>\nKeep away from them, boy.<br \/>\nI am ready to flash them,<br \/>\ninto your soft flesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve turned into a tiger.<br \/>\nMove away, or I&#8217;ll tear you apart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today love is death,<br \/>\nand man lies in ambush for man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez, <\/strong>Spain, 1910 \u2013 <strong>28.3.<\/strong>1942<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting Antoni Miro First Song The field has retreated seeing it is man\u2019s convulsive assault. What an abyss is laid bare between the olive tree and man! The animal that sings: the animal that can cry and take root recalls its claws. Claws that it covered with smoothness and flowers, but which, in the end, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459"}],"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=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}