{"id":6104,"date":"2023-06-15T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:22","slug":"757-after-the-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/757-after-the-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"757 | After the recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6105 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Miguel-Oscar-Menassa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Painting by Miguel \u00d3scar Menassa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>After the recital<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s it, I&#8217;ve recited, it&#8217;s all over.<br \/>\nNow, surely, a friend will embrace me,<br \/>\nwith strength, with fury, with slight nostalgia,<br \/>\nhugs that tell you: it&#8217;s all right like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Some woman, open, dazzled by my verses,<br \/>\ncrossing that side aisle, before I leave,<br \/>\nwill throw herself into my arms, with the utmost firmness,<br \/>\nlike a bewildered bomb against my eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then there will be those glasses of passionate wine,<br \/>\nand glances and words wet by a weeping,<br \/>\nlike a thing of brotherly tenderness for the poet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Later the night will come to show my solitude,<br \/>\nand there will be no verse for me to understand<br \/>\nwhy did I fly so high, in love, to fall so alone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MIGUEL OSCAR MENASSA (Argentina 1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">from \u201c<strong><em>La patria del poeta<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Miguel \u00d3scar Menassa After the recital That&#8217;s it, I&#8217;ve recited, it&#8217;s all over. Now, surely, a friend will embrace me, with strength, with fury, with slight nostalgia, hugs that tell you: it&#8217;s all right like this. Some woman, open, dazzled by my verses, crossing that side aisle, before I leave, will throw herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"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\/6104"}],"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=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}