{"id":5733,"date":"2022-08-19T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2022-08-19T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T09:44:30","slug":"745-the-poets-work-at-night-alda-merini-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/745-the-poets-work-at-night-alda-merini-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"745 | The poets work at night &#8211; Alda Merini, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5734 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-745.jpg\" alt=\"starry night - illustration by Ithaca 745\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-745.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Afbeelding-745-200x159.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>The poets work at night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nThe poets work at night<br \/>\nwhen time does not press them,<br \/>\nwhen the roar of the crowd falls silent<br \/>\nand the lynching of the hours ends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Poets work in the darkness<br \/>\nlike nighthawks or nightingales<br \/>\nwith their sweetest song<br \/>\nand fear to offend God.<br \/>\nBut poets in their silence<br \/>\nmake far more furor<br \/>\nthan a golden dome of stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Alda Merini,<\/strong> Italy (1931\u20132009)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2500Stanley Barkan<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em>***<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>I poeti lavorano di notte<\/em><\/strong> \/\/ I poeti lavorano di notte\/quando il tempo non urge su di loro,\/quando tace il rumore della folla\/e termina il linciaggio delle ore.\/\/I poeti lavorano nel buio\/come falchi notturni od usignoli\/dal dolcissimo canto\/e temono di offendere Iddio\/ma i poeti nel loro silenzio\/fanno ben pi\u00f9 rumore\/di una dorata cupola di stelle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh The poets work at night The poets work at night when time does not press them, when the roar of the crowd falls silent and the lynching of the hours ends. Poets work in the darkness like nighthawks or nightingales with their sweetest song and fear to offend God. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/5733"}],"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=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}